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Originally Posted by HarryT
With the very greatest respect to you, RB, it's an equally myopic view to think that, on a world-wide board such as this, everybody has been "exposed" to the "advertising hype" of the Kindle.
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Respectfully in return, if 'everybody' had been my claim, I think you would have a point. However, my claim referred to more people / larger audience. Let me show you two web addresses;
www.bookeen.com
www.amazon.com
On a world wide scale, do you think that more people have been exposed to bookeen.com than amazon.com?
Now let's (intentionally) take a more myopic view of just the US. Again two websites;
www.sony.com
www.amazon.com
When someone thinks of books, which site do you think they will visit first?
Lastly, if we 'pit' the just the US vs. this site's worldwide audience, is it your contention that this site gets a greater number of hits from a greater number of people than the US amazon.com site?
Now, it has occurred to me (based on your post) that I may possibly have made an error in context, and if that is the case, I will reconsider my argument and proceed from there.
In this statement by JSWolf;
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The fact that the Kindle is out of stock is not newsworthy. Bookeen and Sony and iRex have all been out of stock and it's just as not newsworthy.
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if he meant that it is not newsworthy
to members of this board, then I took his comment out of context and I am wrong. (even though it appears to have generated discussion beyond whether it is newsworthy or not which actually supports the idea that it was in fact newsworthy to at least some members of this board)
However, if, as that statement can be construed due some ambiguity on his part, it is not newsworthy
at all to anyone, then I stand by my argument.
With his clarification, I will proceed accordingly.