{"id":2184,"date":"2008-08-13T21:21:04","date_gmt":"2008-08-14T02:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=2184"},"modified":"2008-08-13T21:21:04","modified_gmt":"2008-08-14T02:21:04","slug":"new-york-times-the-lessons-from-the-kindles-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=2184","title":{"rendered":"New York Times: The Lessons From the Kindles Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I was wrong. I thought the Kindle, like other attempts at e-books would be a failure. According a New York Times story by Saul Hansell (Aug. 12, 2008), <a href=\"http:\/\/bits.blogs.nytimes.com\/2008\/08\/12\/the-lessons-from-the-kindles-success\/index.html?ref=technology\">The Lessons From the Kindles Success<\/a> argues that while the market of readers may be small, there seem to be a enough readers who read a lot and want the convenience of loading it up on a device. I suspect the ease of use is also a feature. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It seems that Amazon.com\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Kindle is not the flop that many predicted when the e-book reader debuted last year. Citibank\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Mark Mahaney has just doubled his forecast of Kindle sales for the year to 380,000. He figures that Amazon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sales of Kindle hardware and software will hit $1 billion by 2010.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I was wrong. I thought the Kindle, like other attempts at e-books would be a failure. According a New York Times story by Saul Hansell (Aug. 12, 2008), The Lessons From the Kindles Success argues that while the market of readers may be small, there seem to be a enough readers who read a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=2184\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New York Times: The Lessons From the Kindles Success<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,9,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-arts","category-literature","category-media-and-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}