Amazon reacts to not yet here Apple tablet with SDK for Kindle

In reading recent news about Amazon and the ebook platform, it makes me wonder if the move to 30/70 and a SDK are to allow the pricing specifically to be in line with Apple's billing system, so it could be linked in much like the Audible itunes integration, and the SDK would allow developers to develop for a potentially agreed upon standard format based upon their current file type. With Apple re-inventing the still relatively new net-book with the rumored tablet of amazing potential (if you read in to all the rumors that is), then why should they reinvent a e-book store that seems to have fostered a decent following of Kindle and "Kindle for iPhone" owners/app users.

Does this only make sense to me? what do all of you think?

Um, so they have a kindle SIMULATOR for Mac now but they still haven't gotten around to writing a normal Kindle client for mac?!

Weird.

If you mainly read websites, blogs, perhaps newspapers and magazines, then a Kindle should never have been in your future. It is a terrible device for those things, like going back to using a Palm Pilot instead of an iPhone. The 'tablet' will nail those things, and more besides I'm sure.
But if you spend hours curled up with books, then the tablet isn't going to kill the Kindle for you (unless they surprise us all and include some kind of hybrid screen which replicates the e-ink and battery life etc.).
Aside from those technical points, there's one other things a Kindle provides - solitude. Reading is an act of solitude, unfashionable as that is. No email, no phone calls, no texts, no IMs, and definitely no 'tweets' - nothing but you and the words and your endless imagination. Then after you've finished reading, you can pick up your new tablet and tweet and blog and IM and email and text about everything you've just learned and experienced and absorbed.

If Apple, as expected, announces a color tablet next week, would it kill your desire for a Kindle or other e-book reader?

YES

Don't give a dam what they do to or with Kindles:
Amazon have refused to allow any Kindles into New Zealand even though they are happy to supply Australia, Albania, Central Africa and just about everyone else.

To add insult to injury they will allow us to download a beta app that allows one to read the Kindle books etc on a Windows PC.

Kindle: Do you expect me to do color now, Tablet?

Tablet: No, Mr. Kindle. I expect you to die.

From first mover to pathetic follower. The Kindle can't go away fast enough.

Amazon: Me too! Me too!

Giz is announcing that Kindle publishers can publish e-books now sans DRM (but you can't change it later). http://gizmodo.com/5454033/amazon-forgot-to-mention-that-publishers-can-skip-drm-on-kindle-books

thats well said JCLucca. I've been accessing TUAW on a daily basis, and I am starting to discover that this site is more like a "fan" site than a properly news one. It made my mind when they started doing the video shows... come one... the guy just look like a NERD Apple fan... But, even with these conclusions, I still like this site, how it is designed and organized, at least this!

Way to be on top of the news TUAW. Did you find out about this from reading my mom's blog? Ok, I'm just kidding. My mom doesn't know how to blog. But she probably already read this sometime over the past 8 hours that it's been being discussed by other tech blogs.

Why do I subscribe to your posts again?