Amazon Sued by Discovery over Kindle!

July 16, 2010 By 3 Comments

In an interesting twist, The Discovery Network has sued Amazon.com over the technology it uses in the Kindle. Apparently, Discovery claims that the Kindle violates a patent filed several years ago by Discovery for an electronic reading device. However, most experts are saying that the suit has little merit and will probably not result in any type of win or compensation for Discovery.

This does however, strengthen the notion that the Kindle is growing significantly in popularity, despite its competitors!

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  • Tom

    Wasn’t there something about Amazon suing B&N for their nook, as well?

    It seems nook has pretty much dominated Kindle lately, at least in market share. And especially considering it was the main catalyst that drove Kindle 2′s price prematurely to $189 (in their noted 4-hour-delayed response to B&N’s price drop to $199 on their nook 3G).

    What are your thoughts on nook v. Kindle? To me, nook is obviously better, if for nothing else than the Droid operating system. Always having a current, up-to-date device, opposed to having to keep buying the new one (as with the Kindle line) is a huge positive in my book, not to mention the in-store features and notably sleeker design.

    Just speculation. How do you think they compare? And if you think Kindle is better, what do you think it has over the nook?

    Thanks!

  • http://www.kindleowners.com admin

    Hey Tom,

    Thanks for the questions. I think we will do a post soon comparing the two.

  • Ron

    Tom,

    Being European, the Nook is not in the picture as B&N simply decided not to deliver it’s Nook, outside of the USA.
    Amazon’s Kindle’s (I own a DX Graphite and a 6″ Wifi Graphite) is the only dominant e-reader, with Sony as probably the only serious competitor, looking at performance and technology.
    Pricewise, no other reader can beat Amazon’s Kindle in Europe.