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Read the article. Wasn't impressed. Said so in a comment.
I do take my Kindle with me ... pretty much everywhere. I pull it out and read:
1. In the checkout line at the grocery or anywhere the line looks to be at least 5 to 10 minutes of a wait.
2. During any and all flights (unless I'm the pilot)
3. At the pool
4. In restaurants (unless I'm there with someone)
My Kindle never fails to draw a crowd ... and lots of questions, from both men and women. I tell them the price, about Whispernet, about getting books from both pay and free sites ... and they are clearly impressed.
I also tell them (for the sake of fairness) that there are other companies that make ebook readers, and some are more expensive, some less ... others do not have a keyboard, and if they don't like that aspect, then there are other options. Of course, then they want to know how they can purchase books right from the book without a keyboard .... and that leads me to tell them that, right now anyway, if they want to do that ... the Kindle is the only option.
You know .... clearly whoever this guy is, he understands nothing about exponential growth. It's the old "I tell two friends, and they tell two friends ...." If in the first year, Kindle owners each cause only two people a year to buy a Kindle, and in the second year they do the same and in the third year they do the same .... you start having a LOT of Kindles being sold after not too long a period of time.
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