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I dislike Amazon, but I like the way they dodge around the exact sales figures for the Kindle. It's certainly not humility on their part, but it's effective. It gets people talking about the Kindle in a way that people talk more about a novel if the ending is ambiguous. There would be less Kindle-talk if people knew the exact figure. Cheers to them. (I also dislike the way the New York Times ranks books according to sales. I don't really want to know what's popular, I want to know what a few people I respect are saying about it. I also dislike they way Hollywood releases weekend box-office numbers, etc, etc, etc. It's definitely an issue with me.)
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