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Originally Posted by thinkpadx
As for Nook outselling Kindle, I very much doubt it. Amazon does not reveal their numbers for the Kindle so journalists can only make guesses.
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Amazon does not reveal its numbers, but manufacturers do. DigiTimes looked at manufacturer shipments, and found that in March 53% went to B&N. Now, granted, that doesn't necessarily reflect units sold -- for all we know, nine tenths of those Nooks are sitting in crates protecting some warehouse floor from dust. It's also possible the DigiTimes survey is fatally flawed somewhere. But it's the closest thing
I've seen to hard data on Kindle vs. Nook. Got any better numbers?
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The number of iPads sold is hardly a negative thing for Amazon.
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Could go either way. If Jobs is right, and nobody reads any more, then the iPad is entirely irrelevant to the Kindle one way or the other. (Of course, if Jobs were right, then Amazon wouldn't be selling Kindles by the boatload, either.)
But with Apple moving a ballpark million iPads a month, if even a low percentage of iPad buyers start sucking down books out of the Apple store, Apple's going to end up with a significant (and by "significant" I mean anything north of ten percent) portion of the ebook market. Indeed, Apple's already claiming 20%, but that's just about as believable as Bezos' claims to 90.
But again, I'm simply going with what I've seen from industry watchers who are both a) significantly more knowledgeable about the epublishing industry than I (or just about anybody in this discussion?) am, and b) usually wrong anyway :-)
Again, have something better?
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Originally Posted by thinkpadx
You get Amazons software on a plethora of devices including phones and tablets.
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We may simply be speaking different dialects of English here, but I'd never heard five referred to as a "plethora" before. Heck, FBReader supports three times that number. And if that doesn't do it for you, there's always FBReaderJ, which should run on just about anything with a JVM.
Of the dozen or so cellphones, laptops, desktops ereaders and sundry reading-compatible devices lying around my house, the Kindle app only supports one. FBreader supports seven, and half the rest have their own built-in ePub support.
Yeah, I know. Anecdotal even and an Abe Lincoln will just about get you a latte at Starbucks.
--Nathanael