Re: Kindle in-stock date now Dec. 5

I suspect that if you gave a painted brick with bottlecap buttons a puff 
story and a cover picture in Newsweek you would see dramatic sales 
figures for the first week or two. Let's see what happens in January.

Jon.

John Landahl wrote:
> 
> While it's still a little early to be sure yet, I'd say the signs are pointing to the Kindle being 
> a major success, surprising as that might be to those of us jaded TeBC members who 
> remember earlier highly-touted ebook readers that flopped.  After all, as Jeff Bezos is 
> quoted by the New York Times as saying at the introduction of the Kindle, "If you go back 
> in time, the landscape is littered with the bodies of dead e-book readers."
> 
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