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Ben Thornton · 08-08-2010, 04:51 PM

Amazon's stated aim is to have every book available on the Kindle. Their book store claims something like 30 million titles, while Kindle offers about half a million (bit less in UK, bit more in US). Have they got a snowball's chance in hell of realising their aim, or is this just marketing? At first glance, this looks like getting 60x what they already have.

On a related note, "Harry Potter" lists about 7000 titles - about 1000 times the number of actual titles. So, maybe that 30 million is really a lot fewer actual individual titles, with fewer duplicates in the Kindle space. (I know that there are more than 7 books that would legitimately come up under the search, but still there are a lot of duplicates).

08-08-2010, 04:51 PM	#1
Ben Thornton Guru Posts: 900 Karma: 779635 Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: UK Device: Kindle 3, iPad 2 (but not for e-books)	Amazon's aim of every book being available on the Kindle Amazon's stated aim is to have every book available on the Kindle. Their book store claims something like 30 million titles, while Kindle offers about half a million (bit less in UK, bit more in US). Have they got a snowball's chance in hell of realising their aim, or is this just marketing? At first glance, this looks like getting 60x what they already have. On a related note, "Harry Potter" lists about 7000 titles - about 1000 times the number of actual titles. So, maybe that 30 million is really a lot fewer actual individual titles, with fewer duplicates in the Kindle space. (I know that there are more than 7 books that would legitimately come up under the search, but still there are a lot of duplicates).