TechCrunch presents a guest post from Ben Elowitz, who comes down very firmly on the Kindle-is-kaput side of the debate. Ben is co-founder and CEO of Wetpaint, a media company with an audience of 10 million monthly unique users; and author of the Digital Quartersblog,. Prior to Wetpaint, he co-founded Blue Nile (NILE), the largest online retailer of fine jewelry.
Top 10 Reasons Why Apple’s iPad Will Put Amazon’s Kindle Out of Business:
1) The multi-functional capability: It’s sooooo much more than a reader, it’s a whole-life device.
2) The screen: Full color, multi-touch screen, gestures, and more.
3) The compatibility: iPad supports ePub out of the box.
4) The iBookstore: Apple goes beyond Amazon to create a shopping experience.
5) The experience: Apple’s creation goes beyond, to make the experience fun and cool.
6) The economics: Publishers have been deeply concerned about price erosion with Amazon’s $9.99 pricing.
7) The apps: With iPad, ublishers can go beyond e-books, and create an app using one of the world’s most popular SDK platforms.
8) The marketplace: Sales of the iPad will mean exposure to so many more consumers than Kindle… Amazon won’t even release the number of Kindles sold, because the number of consumers buying its device pales next to Apple’s reach.
9) The price: For $10 more than a Kindle DX, consumers get an incredible ebook reader, and so much more with iPad.
10) The Apple factor (a.k.a. “sexy”): Amazon just doesn’t have that. As Jason Kottke says, “The iPad makes the Kindle look like it’s from the 1980’s.”
MacDailyNews Take: Make that the 1970s. As we’ve often said, the Kindle looks like something John Dykstra superglued together back in 1975. The Kindle didn’t need iPad’s help to look antiquated.
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: As regular readers know, we’re almost always right. 
And here’s what we said on January 5, 2010: “When and if Apple’s tablet appears… well, let’s just say that Amazon should focus all of their attention on their Kindle software for Apple hardware than on Kindle hardware going forward.”
No, we never fell for Bezos’ Kindle B.S.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Marvin P.” for the heads up.]