New Kindle Sells for $139

Amazon is hoping to convince even casual readers that they need a digital reading device. By firing another shot in an e-reader price war leading up to the year-end holiday shopping season, the e-commerce giant turned consumer electronics manufacturer is also signaling it intends to do battle with Apple and its iPad as well as the other makers of e-readers like Sony and Barnes & Noble.


Unlike previous Kindles, the $139 “Kindle Wi-Fi” will connect to the Internet using only Wi-Fi instead of a cellphone network as other Kindles do. Amazon is also introducing a model to replace the Kindle 2, which it will sell for the same price as that model, $189. Both new Kindles are smaller and lighter, with higher contrast screens and crisper text.

“The hardware business for us has been so successful that we’re going to continue,” Jeffrey P. Bezos, Amazon’s chief executive, said in an interview at the company’s headquarters. “I predict there will be a 10th-generation and a 20th-generation Kindle. We’re well-situated to be experts in purpose-built reading devices.”

When Amazon introduced the Kindle in 2007, Mr. Bezos described it as a must-have for frequent travelers and people who read “two, three, four books at the same time.” Now, Amazon hopes that at $10 less than the least expensive reading devices from Barnes & Noble and Sony, the new Kindle has broken the psychological price barrier for even occasional readers or a family wanting multiple Kindles.


“At $139, if you’re going to read by the pool, some people might spend more than that on a swimsuit and sunglasses,” Mr. Bezos said.

Some analysts are predicting that e-readers could become this year’s hot holiday gift. James L. McQuivey, a principal analyst specializing in consumer electronics at Forrester Research, said a price war could for the first time reduce at least the price of one e-reader to under $100, often the tipping point for impulse gadget purchases.


Amazon has slashed the price of the Kindle at a speed that is unusual, even for electronic gadgets. By last year, the price of the device was to $259, down from its starting price of $399 in late 2007. In June, hours after Barnes & Noble dropped the price of its Nook e-reader to $199, Amazon dropped the price of the Kindle to $189. The Kindle DX, which has a larger, 9.7-inch screen, is $379.

With Amazon’s latest announcement, it is again waging a price war. Barnes & Noble offers a Wi-Fi version of the Nook for $149 and Sony offers the Reader Pocket Edition, which does not have Wi-Fi, for $150.


Of course, price is just one factor people consider before making a purchase. The quality of the product, adequate inventory and appealing marketing are just as important, said Eric T. Anderson, a professor of marketing at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.


But as the e-reader marketplace has grown crowded “there are lots of substitutes out there so the only way they can create demand is by lowering the price,” he said.
Still, the iPad’s $499-and-up price tag has not stifled demand for that device. Though the iPad does much more than display books, customers often choose between the two, and are willing to pay much more for the iPad because it is an Apple product, said Dale D. Achabal, executive director of the Retail Management Institute at Santa Clara University. “The price point Apple can go to is quite a bit higher than the price point other firms have to go to that don’t have the same ease of use, design and functionality,” he said.
Apple says it has sold 3.3 million iPads since introducing it in April. Amazon does not release Kindle sales figures, but says that sales tripled in the month after its last price cut.
Two of the most compelling aspects of the iPad — a color display and touch screen — are elements that some customers have been yearning for on the Kindle. Keep waiting, Mr. Bezos said.


“There will never be a Kindle with a touch screen that inhibits reading. It has to be done in a different way. It can’t be a me-too touch screen,” he said. Earlier this year, Amazon bought Touchco, a start-up specializing in touch-screen technology, but current touch-screen technology adds reflections and glare and makes it hard to shift one’s hands while reading for long periods of time, he said. Color is also “not ready for prime time,” Mr. Bezos said.


The new Kindles, which will ship Aug. 27, have the same six-inch reading area as earlier Kindles but weigh about 15 percent less and are 21 percent smaller. The Kindles have twice the storage, up to 3,500 books.

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THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, by Stieg Larsson

A middle-aged journalist, Mikael Blomkvist, publishes the magazine Millennium in Stockholm. In the opening courtroom drama, Blomkvist loses a libel case, having offered no defense for his publication of damaging allegations about a billionaire Swedish industrialist Hans-Erik Wennerström. He is sentenced to three months in prison. The court case and verdict brings the journalistic competence of Millennium into question. This, combined with the enmity of the powerful Wennerström exerting influence on corporate allies, quickly leads to losses in advertising revenue and reduced circulation. Facing jail time and professional disgrace, Blomkvist steps down from his position on the Board of Millennium in order to protect what reputation remains to the magazine. This occurs despite the strong objections of Erika Berger, Blomkvist's long time friend, 'occasional lover', and business partner. While Blomkvist considers the bleak prospect of jail-time and time away from the Magazine he helped to create, he is offered an unlikely freelance assignment by Henrik Vanger, the elderly former CEO of Vanger Enterprises. What Blomkvist is unaware of is that, before contacting him, Vanger commissioned a comprehensive investigation into Blomkvist's personal and professional history. The investigation is carried out by Lisbeth Salander, the title figure of the book. Salander is a curious creature. Twenty-five years of age, she is highly talented and earns a good income as a private investigator. Yet she is asocial to the extreme, emotionally closed, untrusting, and damaged to the extent that as a child she was removed from the care of her parents, declared emotionally incompetent and is a ward of the state. However, she is nothing if not resourceful. When faced with a guardian who abuses and rapes her, she takes revenge swiftly and violently.

Blomkvist visits Vanger on his estate on the tiny island of Hedeby, several hours from Stockholm. The old man draws Blomkvist in by promising not only financial reward for the assignment, but also promises that at the end of the contracted year, he will furnish Blomkvist with solid evidence that Wennerström is truly the scoundrel Blomkvist suspects him to be. On this basis, Blomkvist agrees to spend a year writing the Vanger family history as a cover for the real assignment which is to solve a "cold case"—the disappearance of Vanger's great niece Harriet some 40 years earlier, when she was sixteen. Vanger, a shrewd character, admits he is obsessed with finding out the truth of what happened to Harriet, and expresses his suspicion that Harriet was murdered by a member of the vast Vanger family, many of whom were present in Hedeby on the day of her disappearance. Each year on his birthday Harriet would make Henrik a present of pressed flowers. On his birthday every year since Harriet's murder, Vanger explains, the murderer torments him with a present of pressed flowers....................

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List : Most Expensive GOODS IN THE YEAR 2010

The following objects are created not simply to perform its main function. With unique designs and made of choice materials, the following objects are created as special.
Here are the most expensive things in the world throughout 2010, as quoted from www.worldamazingrecords.com.

1. Cocktail: £ 15,250
Most Expensive Cocktail Drinks The most expensive cocktails in the world worth about £ 15,250. These drinks are not typically contain olives so airy cocktail, but uses a diamond ring. Created by Harvey Nichols in Manchester, England, this drink should not be taken arbitrarily, but must be escorted by security guards.
This cocktail contains 6.5 shine pink tourmaline and a set of 18-karat white gold. These drinks are created deliberately to the moon Pink Dinners by a bartender named Jay Malik. A security force prepared to keep the drink. Visitors can select various types of diamond rings and the most expensive is £ 27,000.
2. Shoes: £ 1 million
Stuart Weitzman stilettos Rubi Surely you're curious what it's like using shoes costing £ 1 million. The world's most expensive shoes are sold in Harrods, London, England. Having exhibited at the media for a photo session, shoe storage box of bullets and anti-lock around it. The shoe is inspired from the ruby slippers in the movie "The Wizard of Oz" is, made of platinum and decorated with yarn yarn pieces 642 rubies. Shoes designed by Stuart Weitzman.
3. Hair Cut: £ 1,925  

If you want your hair trimmed by Lee Stafford, a London hairdresser origin, make sure you have plenty of money. He put a very high rate of 1925 pounds. He named the style potonganya "couture cut" and only done by Stafford. Champagne, hors d'oeuvres (various delicious food) is also part of the package couture.
4. Denim: U.S. $ 4,000
Expensive Jeans Pants APO Jeans, denim pembuaat most expensive company in the world, wanting to make products such as Mercedes-Benz. This creates a denim company for U.S. $ 4,000. They also make jeans for men and women who are adorned with silver buttons and decorative shapes nails costing U.S. $ 1,000, and decorative 14 carat white gold, yellow and nail trimmings costing U.S. $ 1,500, as well as buttons and decorative nails from platinum at U.S. $ 3,250.
There also are buttons and nails are made of diamond ornaments worth U.S. $ 4,000. All denim has a serial number and share of the district assessment official body in New York.
APO jeans made of denim weaving India that costs U.S. $ 40 per meter. Buttons and ornaments made of precious metals or, if the customer wants to spend U.S. $ 4,000 or more, to get the decorations a dozen white diamonds on a denim button.
5. Wristwatch: U.S. $ 11 million
Expensive Hours The most expensive addition, this clock can also say that the process of making the most complicated. The price of this hour is U.S. $ 11 million and sold at Sotheby's. It has 24 golden hours compiling a function, not just as a timepiece.
6. Picture: U.S. $ 104 million  

Most expensive painting in the world worth U.S. $ 104 million by Pablo Picasso. Created in 1905 when Picasso was 24 years old. This painting was in Sotheby's, New York, United States. This painting is titled "Garcon a la Pipe '(The man with the pipe).
7. Nail polish: U.S. $ 250  

Bet you feel special when wearing thin nail polish that has platinum dust in it. Nail polish called 'I Do' It seems to want to pamper and beautify the nails of women. This nail polish bottle costs U.S. $ 250. Created by Allure magazine in collaboration with the supplier of platinum, Johnson Matthey, PGI and Essie Cosmetics. However, the first edition of the bottle was made in a special bottle of platinum and the price reached U.S. $ 55,000.
8. Tie: 1 crore (10 million rupees)
Expensive Tie When Salman Khan, an Indian artist berjlan on the red carpet, using the world's most expensive tie, his photographs were spread throughout the world. Ties are bertahtakan 261 diamonds and 77 carats respectively. The fabric itself is made of pure silk with 150 grams of gold. Tie for 10 million Rupees, designed by Satya Paul and the group Suashish Diamond.
9. Phone: £ 28,000
Expensive mobile phones Mobile phones are decorated specially for the rich gold is made Peter Aloisson. It costs more than making phone is the price of a BMW 3 series or a Jaguar S-Type. The phone is a Motorola phone, which was covered in 1200 diamonds and 18 karat gold decorated keyboards. Handset price is £ 28,000. This phone beat the previous record for most expensive mobile phone that also Aloisson production, named 'Diamante', which cost £ 23,000.
10. Perfume: £ 47,500  

The price of this perfume is £ 47,500 and is the most expensive perfume in the world. Perfume was created by the famous perfume maker from England, Arthur Burnham, is packaged in a 4 in bottle made of platinum, 24 carat gold, rubies and diamonds.
11. Pena: U.S. $ 265,000
Most Expensive Pen A Swiss company company dating d'Ache make the world's most expensive pen, called 'La Modernista Diamonds'. Pens are sold in Harrods, London, England for U.S. $ 265,000. Created by Antonio Gaudi, a pen is rhodium-plated solid silver and decorated with 18 carat gold with 5072 diamonds and 96 rubies.
12. Fungi: £ 28,000 per 1.88 pounds  

An Italian restaurant in Knightsbridge, Zafferano bought the most expensive white mushrooms in the world. The price is £ 28,000 for 1.88 pounds. When the restaurant got a charity auction in Tuscany.
13. Teddy: price depends on demand
Most Expensive Teddy Bear 125 carats of silk and mohair teddy bear makes Teddy look shiny. Gold knot looks adorned the hands of fur. Eye color of yellow gold is made of sapphire surrounded by diamonds. The ear is made of 24 carat gold. Teddy has a high 50 cm high. The doll was made for presentation at the Margarete Steiff, 125 years after the start making cloth pillow years ago.

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Christmas Gift Ideas for Those Hard to Buy for

Let start this by answering the question “who is the easiest to buy for?” so we can eliminate this category. I believe children and kids are by far the easiest to buy for. It is safe to assume that all kids love toys and games. The vast array of new and interesting toys that come to the market each year makes this an easy task when it comes to Christmas shopping for children.

That brings me to the hardest group of people to buy for. I find that buying gifts for your “other half” and siblings are always the hardest. There is always the quest to find something cool, original or unusual so that he or she will be impressed by it. In this article, I would like to highlight some of my favorite gifts that fall into three very popular categories - “unusual and unique”, “fun and novelty gifts” and “useful and practical” presents.

Unusual and unique gifts: Stealth Tyvek wallets which come in various designs are great as they appeal to both male and female. These wallets, made of tyvek are literally indestructible! They are extremely light and easy to carry around in your purse or inside a back pocket for the boys. I also like Mopods. These are cell phone accessories that are cute and serve a useful purpose. MoPods are little characters that spin and flash to alert you to a call on your GSM phone. This way, you can keep your phone in a bag or pocket, with the ringer turned off, but still know when you're receiving a call. The Version 2 Mopods with new characters are now available in the market. My third recommendation is the T-Equalizer shirt. It is the ultimate in Geek Chic for music and party loving people. These electro-luminescent design T-shirts have an EQ panel connected to a battery pack which is sound activated. This makes a great gift for a teenage brother or boyfriend. Last but not least, if your partner is a football or baseball fanatic, how about giving him or her a Personalized Sports History Book. The book provides a wonderful insight into your favorite team, their history, the high and lows, the inside stories, the gossip as documented in the New York Times and presented in a beautiful leatherette book gold embossed with the recipient’s name. This is truly a unique and personal keepsake gift.

Fun and novelty gifts: There is a huge selection of funny and novelty gifts available. Here are some of my favorites. Wind up racing grannies and fighting granddads are great novelty toys that are guaranteed to make anyone laugh. Wind up the grannies and watch them race each other. Wind up the fighting granddads and watch them give each other a wack on the head The Poo-pooing candy dispensers that come in Santa, reindeer and snowman characters are just hilarious and a must for this year’s stocking! If you are looking for something different for that person who has everything, a deed to a piece of America is a unique novelty gift with an element of “humor” about it. Your boyfriend or husband is sure to be thrilled with this unusual opportunity to Own a Piece of America with a personalized DEED TO THE UNITED STATES. It's a one-of-a-kind collector's item that will be cherished for years to come.

Useful and practical gifts: These gifts tend to be things for the home. The Jellephish Mood Lamp that flashes numerous shades is a sleek piece of contemporary lighting. This unique gadget which was first introduced in the UK is now available in the USA. If you have money to splash around other useful and practical gifts are Tevos, music players, digital photo frames and digital cameras. However, if one is strapped for cash something like a favorite CD or DVD works well. Finally, don’t be afraid to throw in things like slippers and pajamas for those winter months or get your partner some stylish clothing. This is your opportunity to dress him or her in something you like.

If you are still stuck or feeling totally uninspired try asking for his or her Christmas wish list. Of course, the element of surprise is reduced but at least you know you will get the right gift. Why not combine a surprise gift with something on his wish list this Christmas?

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