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Retail link is key for Nook, Kindle Fire

By Hiawatha Bray

 |  Globe Staff  

  November 17, 2011

The new Kindle Fire from Amazon.com has finally arrived, and it’s a pretty cool device -- which is too bad. It was supposed to be red hot, a low-priced tablet computer good enough to become the first serious rival to Apple Inc.’s iPad. And that could still happen, but only because it’s a lot cheaper and a little smaller than the Apple tablet, and delivers decent performance. But the original Kindle, the first successful electronic reader, was different.

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