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



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