Surprising many (including me), Amazon's Kindle may turn out to be a big success. Even with a big price tag -- reduced today to $359 -- analysts are predicting sales of $750 Million by 2010.
Full disclosure: Jack Morton helped launch the Kindle last November, so I'm certainly happy for Amazon's success. I'm just generally skeptical about any product that attempts to change people's habits so dramatically. People like books, like to touch them, dog-ear the pages, pass them on to friends. So even for a tech geek like me, I'm slow to adopt an eBook.
With sales hitting critical mass (enough to achieve production economies and bring the price down), I think I might have to pick one up and try it for a while.
Have you tried it? What did you think?
Comments (1)
I love it. Agree with you in principle that the format of the book works, so why try and fix it? But the kindle for me is about so much more than that: what you sacrifice in format (a paper book is basically the perfect format), you make up for in convenience, new features and ease of use. Download your newspaper automatically every morning. Finish a book en-route? Buy a new one immediately.
The kindle's not perfect by any stretch, but it's a significant advance imo. I love that it's out there, and can't wait to see v 2.0
Posted by kai on May 29, 2008 1:27 AM