Sorry, meant to reply to the whole list ... Michael's reply to always defaults to himself only and I forget to change that.<br /><br />
<p>On May 8, 2009, <strong>joshua@hutchinson.net</strong> wrote:</p>
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<blockquote class="email_quote" style="border-left: 2px solid #267fdb; margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 1.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Yeah, *everybody* I know has a cell phone.<br /><br />I know exactly zero that have READ a book on a cell phone.&nbsp; Even with high end phones, like iPhones, the screens are not fun to read a whole book on.<br /><br />I really don't think current phones will ever be a major eBook platform, just like people's computers aren't major eBook platforms.&nbsp; Sure, people do it, but not a LOT of people.<br /><br />Josh<br /><br /><br />
<p>On May 8, 2009, <strong>hart@pglaf.org</strong> wrote:</p>
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<blockquote class="email_quote" style="border-left: 2px solid #267fdb; margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 1.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br />On Fri, 8 May 2009, Marcello Perathoner wrote:<br /><br />&gt; Michael S. Hart wrote:<br />&gt;<br />&gt; &gt; However, I will also bet that Kindle sales this year<br />&gt; &gt; will NOT equal 10% of iPhones and their clones. . . .<br />&gt;<br />&gt;<br />&gt; If a body buys an ebook reader you can be pretty confident that she will use<br />&gt; it to read books. And you don't spend $300 if you just read a little: You read<br />&gt; a lot.<br /><br />"a lot" is still a relative term.<br /><br />No one seems to expect the average Kindle owner to buy more than a<br />book a month, and even the most wild speculations are based on 3 a<br />month by people who don't say that will actually happen.<br /><br />If people are going to talk in relative terminology,<br />it doesn't really mean anything in terms of numbers,<br />hard numbers, and if Kindle doesn't sell in numbers,<br />hard numbers, it will continue to be more PR than an<br />actual reality.<br /><br /><br />&gt; If somebody buys an iPhone (which is basically an inflated iPod) you can be<br />&gt; pretty confident that he will listen to music on it.<br /><br />I would be even more confident about phone calls.<br /><br />However, if only 10% of iPhone users read eBooks<br />on their iPhones, that's more than Kindle users.<br /><br />Apple will sell 10 million iPhones this year and<br />may have sold about that many last year.<br /><br />Again, I repeat, because no one seems to hear it,<br />WE MUST REACH PEOPLE WHERE THEY ARE LIVING!!!!!!!<br /><br />People are living with cellphones. . .67% of ALL<br />PEOPLE ON THE ENTIRE PLANET HAVE A CELLPHONE.<br /><br />20% of the world population maybe has computers.<br /><br />0%, in round numbers, have a Kindle or Sony.<br /><br />They have to sell 100 million to hit even 1%.<br /><br />They aren't even TRYING for that kind of market!<br /><br /><br />The REALITY of these products lies in numbers of<br />how many are sold and used.<br /><br />The 4.3 billion number of cellphones doesn't even<br />include those that are not in service, but should<br />still make fine eBook readers. . . .<br /><br /><br />Stop being SUBjective.<br /><br />Start being OBjective.<br />_______________________________________________<br />gutvol-d mailing list<br />gutvol-d@lists.pglaf.org<br />http://lists.pglaf.org/mailman/listinfo/gutvol-d<br /></blockquote>
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