We've all wondered about how many Kindle units have sold. One Wall Street analyst is willing to make an estimate:
And Kindle could sell 380,000 units in 2008, more than double what a Citigroup Global Markets research analyst had expected, he wrote yesterday in a research report."In its first year, that's exactly how many iPods were sold," analyst Mark Mahaney wrote. "Turns out the Kindle is becoming the iPod of the book world."
Charlie Sorrel has some thoughts over at Wired's blogs.
Here's a project I would love to do if I had the time--a face-off between Kindle, the iPhone, the Sony Reader, an eBook Technologies ETI-1, and a few other devices. Take a few book types--novel, textbook, graphical book, business document to begin with--and create a feature matrix and evaluation criteria. Also evaluate the e-commerce experience, the experience with public domain and other free content, and the experience of adding your own content. Write it all up, and keep it up to date.
Why didn't I think of this? Of course, among other things, I don't have the stomach to deal with the legal challenges.
