michael said:
Using your own statistics I thus defeat you:
defeat? it's not a contest. it's a conversation. :+) we're all blind men trying to describe an elephant.
Using your own statistics I thus defeat you: Half the US population is 150 million people. MAYBE 1/3 of one percent have a Kindle. . . .
well, if you look, i said that _among_book-buyers_, the kindle is popular, so i think i described it well... but if you want to quibble over the word "popular", i'll rescind it, in favor of "significant", so it now says: among book-buyers, the kindle is now significant... since this very small percentage of the u.s. population -- 1/3 of one percent, if we use your figure, michael -- now accounts for 1/3 of the books purchased at amazon -- at least for the titles which are available for kindle -- i think it's hard to deny that their impact is "significant"... heck, i thought the 10% figure in february was shocking, but it didn't seem to draw very much comment, i thought. this 35% figure, though, has been written up quite a bit... and everyone seems to think it's just as surprising as i do. -bowerbird ************** Remember Mom this Mother's Day! Find a florist near you now. (http://yellowpages.aol.com/search?query=florist&ncid=emlcntusyelp0000000...)