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Originally Posted by Katti's Cat
I doubt very much it will be the Kindle though - at least I have started educating interested parties around me who only 'know' of the Kindle because it has been in the press lately.
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Very good, now all you need to do is to personally educate a few million more people.
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Originally Posted by Katti's Cat
And Kindle has already annoyed too many potential customers (the 95% who don't live in the US) to really make it forward now.
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I have a few doubts about that, especially since analysts are predicting that the Kindle is likely to snag a 60% market share.
Also, the US makes up about 30% of global book sale revenues; and the Kindle has so "annoyed" people around the world that they are clamoring for international versions of the device....
Again if "winning" is the expectation of total market dominance to the point where no other competitors will exist, that's not going to happen. The international market is still under-served, and even after a market leader is established, competition will be fierce and there will be tons of also-rans. Seen anyone use a Creative Zen lately?**
What's most likely is that Amazon will be capable of throwing its weight around and almost certainly sticking with whatever format it prefers for a long time to come, even if everyone else winds up using ePub.
(** if you are one of the 2-4% of portable music buyers who owns a Zen, this is your cue to speak up and hope that just this once, anecdotes actually do mean more than statistics.
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