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Originally Posted by Dulin's Books
Yes, in fact I consider Kindle to be somewhat less than half-finished. As an ebook vending machine it does its job admirably. As reader of digital files I think its no where near well done.
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Here I HAVE to contradict you. No one seems to have exact figures. But it seems to be common understanding, that Amazon so far is beating all competitors hands down. In my opinion, they gave the market exactly what has been asked for.
I'd like to compare it to Hollywood. I consider Brad .... a crappy actor and Qu... T... a horrible director. I've been bored to death in I... B...
But still: The movie and those guys commercially are successful, even Academy Awards are expected. Obviously, the "tin drum" (as another movie circling around WW2) has way more substance, superior character studies, ....
But still: It's all about being the blockbuster.
It's business. If you "sell like hell" you've done it (everything) right.
In German we say "to die in beauty". Meaning: You've done it all right, but nobody cares. And I guess that's the problem of most readers/manufacturers.
For example, I've been impressed by BeBook's OS one year ago. But it was so ugly/poorly designed (visually, not feature-wise) (in my view), that I've never used it. Kindle on the other side may be far inferior for the power user, but one really has to admire Amazon's business model, strategy and success...And of course it's about the 90% of "mass consumers", each spending about $ 200 per year for eBooks and not about the 10% of enthusiasts, who maybe even download their books from the web and don't bring any recurring business.