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That's a serious accusation. Do you have any stats to back it up?
by ryanwaggoner 18y ago
That's a serious accusation. Do you have any stats to back it up?
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- staunch 18y agoI think you're being a bit dramatic. All I know is based on what I've seen him say. He's extremely evasive about the actual numbers for the Kindle. He cherry picks a single number: "If you take the 230,000 titles where we have Kindle editions - Kindle unit sales are already more than 10 percent of all our sales." I believe (based on my conversations with people about this) that many people hear that from Bezos and take away the idea that the Kindle is now 10 percent of all Amazon revenue or at least all book sales. I believe he's phrasing this in an intentionally misleading way. I think he thinks that the Kindle isn't doing that well right now, but he believes in it and doesn't want to take the stock market hit in admitting that it's going to take a long time before the Kindle truly is a big success. "For that to happen in 14 months is very surprising. It took us 14 years to build up our physical book business." I'm just reading between the lines. I admit could be wrong.