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Originally Posted by JSWolf
What makes the Kindle so special that it deserves to be so newsworthy vs all the others? Nothing is the answer.
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This is where I think you are wrong. I suspect a lot more people have heard of and/or inquired about the Kindle as opposed to the Bookeen, the Sony, etc. etc. I'm thinking the Kindle is a more popular device than the others. I'm thinking many people are being drawn into the ebook world for the first time due to the Kindle. I don't think the analogy of the "Ipod of the ebook reader" is far off in terms of people knowing what a Kindle is versus any of the other readers. That easily explains why the Kindle is more newsworthy than the other devices; it's quite likely it caught a larger audience.
Aside from that, why would Jeff Bezos even consider whether the stock status of other readers is newsworthy in his consideration what he wants to say or advertise about the Kindle? It really shouldn't bear any relevance whatsoever to him.
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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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Because lots of people will be thinking to themselves; "What the heck is a Gen3??" Do you really not see that Amazon is probably getting far greater exposure with their device that the other devices?
My other point is, just because you don't find something newsworthy doesn't mean someone else doesn't. I'm hoping you are objective enough to realize other folks have different interests and levels of interests about different things than you do. In other words, saying it isn't newsworthy and saying it isn't newsworthy
to me are two different things.