04-15-2009, 10:41 PM | #1 |
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I noticed something this week that I thought was interesting. I live in NYC and ride the subway to and from work for about 45 minutes each way. On my commute over the last few weeks since I became a Kindle owner, I've seen maybe 3 people who are reading on a Kindle 2, none on a Kindle 1 (though I have seen some "in the wild" before) but maybe 10 people reading on an iPhone with Kindle software. Those are interesting numbers and I wanted to see what other people's observation was; are people seeing a lot of K2 and K1s on the street? How about people reading on an iPhone?
I'm curious because my theory is that amazon should open the mobile phone platform a lot more to allow people to read their own content because it would spur sales of both ebooks and Kindles as well. What do others think? |
04-16-2009, 08:51 AM | #2 |
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I have seen 2 total since I have started reading... and it has been a little over a year for me. I actually only know of 1 other K1 and that is the one that I bought my sister...
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04-16-2009, 12:00 PM | #5 |
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I've seen 1 Kindle in the wild on an Airplane last fall. I see people with iPhones everywhere of course but never pay attention to what they're doing.
But yes, multifunction devices are what will really help expand the eBook market. Most people probably don't read enough to shell out money (especially at current ereader prices) for a device that does nothing but read books. But they probably would grab some ebooks if some multifunction device they have has an easy and intuitive ebook feature built in. |
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04-18-2009, 02:08 AM | #7 |
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I have never seen anyone on a kindle (or any ebook reader) irl, and I have never seen people reading books on any mobile device.
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04-18-2009, 05:22 AM | #8 |
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i have seen many people in subway readin on kindle
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