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. . . . iPods [and clones] are popular. iPhones [and clones] are popular. Wolverine is popular. Star Trek is popular. Kindles are, as yet, statistically insignificant. Want to bet me whether they sell just ONE million by Thanksgiving??? On Thu, 7 May 2009, Bowerbird@aol.com wrote:

michael said:

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Not what _I_ would call a "popular" eBook reader, as the media says.

book-reading itself isn't all that "popular", we must remind ourselves.

half the population read one book or less (i.e., zero books) last year...

and many book-readers don't _buy_ books, but rather use the library.

so i'd say that -- among book-buyers -- kindles are pretty popular...

-bowerbird

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