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Amazon's Kindle Coming to ... Toys 'R' Us?

Kids' store to carry e-reader starting Sunday

By Kevin Spak,  Newser Staff

Posted Jul 28, 2011 11:45 AM CDT

(Newser) – Does Amazon's Kindle count as a toy? It must now, because starting Sunday it’ll be sold at Toys 'R' Us stores, the companies have announced. It’s not the first retail outlet to carry Amazon's e-reader, but it is the least usual suspect of the bunch. Mashable thinks it’s a good move, because it will help push the Kindle as an educational tool and potential back-to-school item.

Shoppers leave the Toys R Us store in New York's Times Square, Sunday, Dec. 26, 2010.
Shoppers leave the Toys R Us store in New York's Times Square, Sunday, Dec. 26, 2010.   (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
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GenericLeftist
Jul 29, 2011 2:54 AM CDT
They're not doing it to be pioneers for education, It's called capitalism and there happens to be a market for it.
genghisKhanifer
Jul 28, 2011 12:18 PM CDT
If every big corporation did one thing like this to encourage education, I'd curb my complaining about their soulless tyrannical power-hunger by like, at least 5-10%

 
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