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Watched the new interview tonight. Was very good, I always like to nitpick:
1. I've watched Charlie Rose many times, and I'm continually annoyed by his tendency to interrupt a guest's answer with a completely unrelated question. He did this to Bezos as well, which I find very off-putting.
2. I'm getting annoyed with Bezos' laugh. In fact, he seems to make a point to do it in every interview he does, which makes it seem like a gimmick and disingenuous.
3. As a "numbers" guy myself, I'm annoyed that they won't talk about numbers for Kindle. Charlie did a good job of trying to ask the question many times, but he never challenged Bezos' answers. If Amazon just wants numbers to be secret, why then do they provide, for example, sales rankings on their items? Clearly there is a reason they're treating Kindle secretively. My experience is that companies only do this when numbers are "low", or lower than a milestone number that they will be happy to announce once they reach it. So my guess is they've sold less than a million Kindles. But clearly the average Kindle owner buys a *lot* of Kindle books, if those are making up 10% of book sales.
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