Amazon Loses Some Customers in Apple iPad Line

GalleyCat woke up early this Saturday morning to bring you coverage of the long lines of Apple devotees waiting to pick up a copy of the Apple iPad.

Dodging in between television news crews, online reporters, guerrilla marketers with off-road Segways, police officers, and a battalion of private security guards on the jam-packed sidewalk, we asked some publishing-centric questions of the happy crowd.

In the video above, see why three different Kindle readers in the crowd are now switching to Apple iPads. It’s important intelligence for publishers as these readers frankly explain what they want in an eReader. We also asked the crowd publishing’s million-dollar question: How much will you pay for an eBook?”

Today Amazon began including a disclaimer on agency model-priced eBooks, disavowing control over the new pricing model that arrived with the iPad.

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