the best thing about the larger-format kindle announced today was that we didn't have to read ten thousand blog entries over the last eight months preannouncing the darn thing. but the stunning thing bezos said was that books for which amazon has a kindle version sell _35%_ of their copies in electronic form... that's up from _10%_ just since _february_, which bezos attributes to kindle2 popularity. that's astounding because there simply aren't too many kindles out there in the wild quite yet. (i still have yet to see one myself, for instance.) yet there is 1 kindle-version sold for every _2_ paper-books sold _if_ there is a kindle-version. so imagine what the ratio will be once there are 10 times as many kindles out there in the world. -bowerbird ************** Remember Mom this Mother's Day! Find a florist near you now. (http://yellowpages.aol.com/search?query=florist&ncid=emlcntusyelp0000000...)
Seattle is a very bookish and techie city but Kindles are very common here, meaning I've seen a half dozen on the streets and when I mention a Kindle to friends I often get the response "Oh -- I've got one too!" Personally I read probably 20 PG books on Kindle, and 100 technical papers, for each book I buy from Bezos -- but I still buy from Amazon. The DX will be a huge win for me because I can read PDF technical documents directly on the DX without having to format convert them nor print them out. I would think the DX will be very popular with college professors who want their students to purchase that professor's texts. Anyone tracking percent book downloads from PG in Mobi vs. EPUB vs. non-Ebook formats?
On Thu, 7 May 2009, Jim Adcock wrote:
Seattle is a very bookish and techie city but Kindles are very common here, meaning I've seen a half dozen on the streets and when I mention a Kindle to friends I often get the response "Oh -- I've got one too!"
Actually, the entire number of Kindles sold worldwide is JUST BARELY ENOUGH for every person in Seattle to have one. . . . Not what _I_ would call a "popular" eBook reader, as the media says. mh
Personally I read probably 20 PG books on Kindle, and 100 technical papers, for each book I buy from Bezos -- but I still buy from Amazon. The DX will be a huge win for me because I can read PDF technical documents directly on the DX without having to format convert them nor print them out.
I would think the DX will be very popular with college professors who want their students to purchase that professor's texts.
Anyone tracking percent book downloads from PG in Mobi vs. EPUB vs. non-Ebook formats?
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