The U.S. Can't Manufacture the Kindle and That's a Problem

by Willy C. Shih — Harvard Business Review

The lesson: Sometimes when you let your capabilities get away, you give up not only one industry but all its progeny.

Amazon's Kindle e-reader cannot be manufactured in the U.S. and that's a cause for concern.

Even though the Kindle's key innovation — its electronic ink — was invented and [...:]