Tuesday, February 05, 2008


Bezos Says Kindle is On Fire
By Charlie Sorrel February 01, 2008 writing in WIRED:

Amazon's Jeff Bezos has said that the company can't keep up with demand for its ebook reader, the Kindle.
At Amazon's fourth quarter earnings call, Bezos detailed a Wii-like success for the ugly white box:
Kindle is, in terms of demand, is outpacing our expectations [...] We’re working very hard to increase the number of units that we can build and supply per week.

This comes alongside the news that Amazon wants to buy the audiobook company Audible, for a planned $300 million. This sudden alignment of book services starts to make the Kindle look like the iPod of books, and finally shows us just why the Kindle has a built in MP3 player.

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