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Another spot in the ebook wars
Amazon Posts Dozens of New Job Listings Implying a New Kindle Is on...
BY Dan Nosowitz Today Amazon has been posting dozens of job listings on its site over the past few weeks, most notably for positions that have nothing to do with the company's core retail business. "Hardware platform engineer"? "Advanced materials specialist"? "Product design manager"? These are not online retail positions: these are for the next-gen Kindle. Frustratingly, they're all very vague. Just once, I'd like Amazon to put out a job listing for, I don't know, "LCD multitouch display engineer," with job requirements including, "2+ years experience with 10-inch, Samsung-made OLED displays." That kind of thing would really make my job easier. But Amazon is damnably clever, and steadfastly refuses to do my job for me, so let's do some analysis. Lab126 is the division of Amazon responsible for the Kindle, so we can safely assume all of these listings are in some way Kindle-related. There are several signs here that Amazon is in a fairly late stage of development with a new Kindle--a "Software quality assurance engineer" and "Software development test engineer" both suggest that, as the New York Times says, "a product needs to be tested." An ad went up yesterday seeking a "Product...
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Another spot in the ebook wars
Amazon Posts Dozens of New Job Listings Implying a New Kindle Is on...
BY Dan Nosowitz Today Amazon has been posting dozens of job listings on its site over the past few weeks, most notably for positions that have nothing to do with the company's core retail business. "Hardware platform engineer"? "Advanced materials specialist"? "Product design manager"? These are not online retail positions: these are for the next-gen Kindle. Frustratingly, they're all very vague. Just once, I'd like Amazon to put out a job listing for, I don't know, "LCD multitouch display engineer," with job requirements including, "2+ years experience with 10-inch, Samsung-made OLED displays." That kind of thing would really make my job easier. But Amazon is damnably clever, and steadfastly refuses to do my job for me, so let's do some analysis. Lab126 is the division of Amazon responsible for the Kindle, so we can safely assume all of these listings are in some way Kindle-related. There are several signs here that Amazon is in a fairly late stage of development with a new Kindle--a "Software quality assurance engineer" and "Software development test engineer" both suggest that, as the New York Times says, "a product needs to be tested." An ad went up yesterday seeking a "Product...
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Labels: amazon, ebooks, hardware, kindle
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