On Fri, 8 May 2009, Bowerbird@aol.com wrote:
michael said:
Just trying to make things clearer, unlike using terms like "shitload," "lots," "popular". . . .
when 1 e-book is being sold for every 2 p-books, that is officially "a shitload", michael, i looked it up. ;+)
Reminder: This is Amazon talking. Amazon talking about internal affairs. What share of pbooks do they have these days?
and it also means that amazon is selling "lots" of e-books, and that -- to amazon at least -- e-books are indeed becoming quite "popular".
I'd like some solid numbers please.
and yeah, there are many more cell-phones out there in the world, but i'm not hearing _nearly_ so many people talk about reading e-books on their cell-phone as their kindle.
I've heard just the opposite. . . . Even on PDAs.
and these days, if i do hear about someone reading an e-book on their cell-phone, it's likely to be someone reading a kindle-book using amazon's kindle-app on their iphone.
i said:
yes, the kindle is a niche product. michael said: Then make that clear.
i think i made it _extremely_ clear, at the outset, when i said i've never seen a kindle in the wild...
never. could that be any more clear?
never seen a sony machine in the wild either... saw one at a sony booth, at a big book festival, but never in real use out here in the real world.
but hey, performance poetry is "a niche product" too, yet i know people making their living off it...
Kindle just barely exists, except in their PR world.
-bowerbird
mh