Should start a thread posting links to all the articles that said ereaders (specifically the Kindle) would fail.
Here's One!
http://www.livedigitally.com/2007/11...dle-will-fail/
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I just read Seth Godin’s thoughts on Kindle. One of the marketing blogs I definitely enjoy, and his post on the topic is pretty good. But he mentions something that again shows me how off the mark even “industry experts” can be. He writes “The challenge that my hero Jeff Bezos has is that if he’s really really lucky, he’ll sell a million of these things in a year.” I think he’s missing about 5+ “really”s here. If he’s lucky he’ll sell 50,000 in a year, really lucky is 100,000, and really really lucky is about 200K. Moving 7 figures worth of hardware per year is VERY VERY hard! VERY hard. And that’s in an established category, let alone a speculative one.
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Amazon must be really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really... lucky.
But then again, the author could still be right. After all, Amazon doesn't release sales figures.
