“Amazon to explore a secondary marketplace for ‘used’ Kindle ebooks”

This idea is derived from the earlier idea I’d posted about around peer-to-peer lending & borrowing of Kindle ebooks. If you take that a step further, and tweak the lending duration from ‘x weeks/months’ to ‘forever’ – then it becomes nothing but a secondary sale market for ‘used’ Kindle ebooks. Amazon would be hard pressed … Read more

“Amazon to enable peer-to-peer lending & borrowing of Kindle books”

As a consumer, I’ve usually been at the forefront of the digital revolution that has taken over the world in the past 2 decades or so – an early-adopter of technologies, if you may. When it comes to Amazon, this means that all my book purchases have been on Kindle since a while now, and … Read more

A primer on basic decision science using the Indian online marketplace for SDHC cards

The market for electronics products, especially in India, is still quite fragmented to say the least. Apart from the fact that every dollar price is inflated, it becomes all the more important, to not only compare published prices across brands but also look at which of the brands are available in India, and at what … Read more