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Ten years ago, on November 19th, 2007, Amazon introduced Kindle to the world, for US$399. It sold out in five and a half hours, even though there were just 88,000 books available for download. The device remained out of stock for five months until late April 2008. Today, the store has over 7 million e-books available in the United States.
However, that’s hardly Kindle’s greatest success: that honor goes to the fact it released the creativity of millions of writers, allowing them to publish their manuscripts directly on Amazon’s store without having to wait for a publisher’s approval.
Standing On The Shoulders Of Sony
The Kindle’s development started in 2004 when Jeff Bezos tasked his employees to build the world’s best e-reader before Amazon’s competitors could. He had good reason to be wary, as Sony had already released Librie and the long-forgotten Rocket eBook was starting to gain…
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Thank you! I hope you’re having a relaxing Sunday 🙂
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Been busy catching up, so far, but the sun has rediscovered our village, so, walkies (via the Missus) calls 😀
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It’s been pouring all weekend over here. Naturally, as soon as it was Monday, the sun came out again. Sigh…
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Now WE’VE got the rain LOL
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I’m reminded of the welcome a Scottish friend gave me when I first arrived in Edinburgh: “if you don’t like our weather, just wait 5′ and it’ll change” 😀
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YEP 😀
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Speaking of, it’s now pouring…
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😄😄😄
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