Sunday, June 01, 2008

Jeff Bezos: A Passion for Kindle and Digital Delivery

via News CNET by Dan Farber

During an interview with Walt Moosberg at the The Wall Street Journal’s D6: All Things Digital conference

About the number of the Amazon Kindle eBook reader sold so fare ... no numbers, but

"On a title-by-title basis, with 125,000 titles for Kindle, and you look at Amazon's physical sale of the same books, Kindle sales are more than 6 percent of the universe of 125,000 titles"

About the fate of physical books ...

"We see Kindle as an effort to improve the book, even though it hasn't changed in 500 years," and "the vast majority of books will be read electronically. Just as horses haven't gone away, books will be around."

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