Thread: Amazon Kindle out of stock again - back in a few weeks
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Old 03-24-2008, 06:23 AM   #30
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
I think that what Jon is getting at is that an eInk device going out of stock is not "news". Given the shortage of screens from the screen manufacturer, PVI, they all come in and out of stock on a regular basis. The CyBook Gen3, for example, is currently out of stock until May.
Yes exactly. Sony, iRex, Hanlain, Bookeen, Kindle have all had periods of out-of-stock. What makes the Kindle so special that it deserves to be so newsworthy vs all the others? Nothing is the answer. Just because the CEO hopes to have stock sometime soon still doesn't make it worthy of all the attention. Now if Amazon has said we have 1000 backorders and we will be getting stock to fill all of them by the end of April, that's fine. But a message from the CEO that really says nothing isn't anything special at all.

HarryT, why not make a frontpage news post to tell everyone of Bookeen's latest notice about their stock of Gen3s.
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