Thanks for the quick response.
I hadn't realized that yours was the first reply after my first foray into the thread.
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Originally Posted by sirbruce
Jeff Beezos' original statement, reiterated by other Amazon employees.
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Do you have a link for some of that? I'd
really like to see how that's phrased.
Like my common rebuttal to all the glowiness surrounding Amazon's non-statements about the popularity of the Kindle, if they were really finding that 35% of all
sales for books that appear in
both print and are not free-in-Kindle-and-counted-as-units-moved, then they'd be very likely crowing even more loudly than they do now.
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Originally Posted by sirbruce
Industry and financial analysts who determined this by looking at Amazon's financials.
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In other words, more of the guestimating you mentioned in your original reply.
I'm sorry, but I'm having a really tough time swallowing those figures.
Recently I read an analysis (sorry, I forget where) based on how many panels the display manufacturer
could turn out in a month (I think it was production capacity, not even units shipped) and glowingly extrapolated into the number of Kindle sales, despite the fact that everyone else with a 6-inch unit uses pretty much the same panel.
That's a leap of logic I'm not prepared to rely upon.
Honestly... how many
other readers have been sold during the last few years? I feel certain that the WAGs being palmed off as 'sales figures' for Amazon would outpace everyone else's sales
combined.
Color me completely unconvinced.
Even when Amazon does get around to releasing actual figures, the well has been so poisoned that I'm unlikely to believe it even then.