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Time Inc. Pines for a Kindle Killer–If Someone Else Builds It

Peter Kafka in Media on September 10, 2009 at 3:35 pm PT

Is Time Inc. building a Kindle Killer? Nope. A report suggests that Time Inc. wants to get into the hardware business and produce its own e-reader. That’s something other publishers, like Hearst and News Corp., are actually doing or have at least mulled. But multiple sources familiar with the Time Warner unit’s thinking say that’s not the case here.