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Steve Jobs, Kindle, and the 60 Percent Solution
January 22, 2008
Apple's Steve Jobs last week predicted doom for Amazon.com's Kindle reader, according to the New York Times's Bits column: “It doesn’t matter how good or bad the product is, the fact is that people don’t read anymore,” he said. “Forty percent of the people in the U.S. read one book or less last year. The whole conception is flawed at the top because people don’t read anymore.”
Um, if 60 percent of the people do read, that's a heck of a lot of reading devices, whether they be from Amazon or some other hardware provider. But it seems clear that the iReader is not tops on Jobs's list.
Posted by Norman Oder on January 22, 2008 | Comments (3)
