12-15-2007, 02:16 PM | #31 | |
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Don't get confused by looking at Amazon's website and seeing the words "Due to heavy demand Kindles are sold out" Heavy demand could be 300 people or 30,000 people. I say Sony will add wireless capabilities and drop the prices to $250. The Kindle will dwindle in 2008
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Amazon's roots is selling books, they should make their Kindle books available to all readers. Can make more money selling books than selling readers
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12-15-2007, 07:14 PM | #34 |
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I agree. Letting other devices use the format seems like it would be profitable. After all, the device, expensive as it is, probably has a very low profit margin. Maybe they're concerned that people will choose one of the other devices because they're cheaper and then not be lured into the subscription content which, while cheaper than books, is probably a very high profit margin for them.
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12-15-2007, 08:49 PM | #35 |
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Profit margins on the Kindle must be huge. The hardware can't cost much more than the PRS-505 and Amazon is selling direct.
We won't really know what Amazon will do with AZW until they start selling outside the US. My guess is that a non-US Kindle won't be able to buy US AZW's and a US Kindle won't be able to buy non-US AZW's. However, at that point Amazon may let both read secure MOBI, since MobiPocket seems to have worldwide rights to its titles. |
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I think it would be great if they supported Mobi. The think I wonder about is whether the use of AZW which is different in name only is because of their agreements with other Mobi sellers. I seem to recall reading here that the reason that Mobipocket.com's prices were always higher was that they had an agreement not to undercut other Mobi sellers. If Amazon is bound by that, it may explain why they did AZW. |
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12-16-2007, 12:46 AM | #37 |
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for all we know the Kindle and the Sony could be made in the same plant
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12-17-2007, 02:56 AM | #38 | |
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Just thought I would point this out. Here is a site that has developed some tools to determine the numbers of sold items. It's sorta-kinda pretty cool. Here are the numbers for the Kindle over the past 30-days: http://data.terapeak.com/?query=kind...te=2007-12-12& Last edited by brecklundin; 12-17-2007 at 02:58 AM. |
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btw, you need to search on more the simply Kindle...or you get other items with kindle in the auction title...I would do title-only searches using kindle +amazon. If ya do title +description you can pick up listings that will have either of the words in the description thus again skewing the results.
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