Wired has an
article questioning whether there is a market for the Kindle:
Quote:
So, all things considered, how many Kindles does that work out to? Two million? One million? Five hundred thousand?
Jeff Bezos surely did a market-sizing exercise or two of his own before flying off the handle in excitement over e-readers, and he must have seen something more than a few hundred million in revenue (a mere rounding error to the company's $14.8 billion annual take) worth getting carried away over.
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I think the author is totally missing the point:
Eventually the market for the Kindle (or any other ebook) is as big (or small) as the p-book market itself.
And for Amazon I think the Kindle is not so much about money and market potential, it is about vision, about (re)building the foundations of the publishing business.
Bezos cannot sit around waiting for the p-book market to stagnate; his choice is clearly to be an agent of change.
That is... to Kindle.
What do you think?