{"id":6678,"date":"2008-03-21T14:01:34","date_gmt":"2008-03-21T14:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/kindle-interest-rekindled.html"},"modified":"2008-03-21T14:01:34","modified_gmt":"2008-03-21T14:01:34","slug":"kindle-interest-rekindled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/kindle-interest-rekindled.html","title":{"rendered":"Kindle Interest Rekindled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"3\" hspace=\"3\" align=\"left\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/kindle-apology.jpg\" \/>Boy was I ever <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/consumer-electronics\/rekindle.html\">wrong<\/a> about the Kindle. I said no one wants the device and it sold out in a day and Amazon can&#8217;t keep up with demand. Wow! I really screwed up.<\/p>\n<p>I only wish Amazon would tell us exactly how much I screwed up by. You see, Jeff Bezos recently posted an <a href=\"http:\/\/g-ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/G\/01\/digital\/fiona\/general\/gateway_jeff_final._V9648910_.jpg\">apology letter<\/a> about this device on the Amazon home page. He said they are doing their best to get these products to customers in a timely fashion.<\/p>\n<p>The only problem is they won&#8217;t tell anyone how many Kindles they have sold.<\/p>\n<p>I think I have refined my belief that no one wants these BTW. I think they are good for financial information so as a replacement for the New York Times or the Wall Street Journal, they do make sense.<\/p>\n<p>Still, this should be a niche market and I can&#8217;t imagine more than a few hundred thousand of these being sold in a year at very best.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder what milestone Bezos is waiting for before he starts quoting numbers&#8230; A hundred thousand? A million?<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB120611675114655033.html?mod=rss_E-Commerce\/Media\">Wall Street Journal<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boy was I ever wrong about the Kindle. I said no one wants the device and it sold out in a day and Amazon can&#8217;t keep up with demand. Wow! I really screwed up. I only wish Amazon would tell us exactly how much I screwed up by. You see, Jeff Bezos recently posted an<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,118,175],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6678"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}