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Old 12-04-2007, 03:37 PM   #6
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Who is actually basing their purchase on 'quantity'? I admit there is a certain threshold before most consider a store a worthwhile investment (20k? 30k 60k?) but beyond that, which I feel Amazon has already met, I don't think the quantity really matters in terms of making future sales.
I, for one, care a great deal about it. And I think quantity matters a great deal. The total number of available ebooks by all vendors combined is less than 1% of the total number of pbooks that are available. I think that's pitifully small. By far, most of the books I want to buy I can't get in ebook form. I really don't care much about the rather small differences we've seen between the offerings by the vendors so far. Amazon has taken the lead, yes, but they will need to vastly improve their offerings to make ebooks take off. I think that if we continue at the current pace, this will continue to be a fringe business for another decade where the only customers are a few people who are either dedicated readers or techno geeks or both.
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