Thread: Waterstones (UK biggest bookseller) to sell Amazon's Kindle book reader
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Old 05-23-2012, 12:21 PM   #69
fjtorres
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Originally Posted by murraypaul View Post
Kindles sell themselves.
And a whole lot of other things: ebooks, magazines, newpapers, audiobooks, and (for the SO Kindles) TVs, cosmetics, DVDs, and pretty much everything else in the Amazon online catalog.

One more time: us folks 'round here aren't even vaguely representative of the typical ebook buyer. To a lot of people, reader = Kindle. Everything else is "just" an imitation.
Likewise, to a lot of people any tablet is an iPad...
Life isn't fair and first movers get a lot of extra mindshare for free.
(shrug)
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