numbers (are you impressed yet)

[walkitout]

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/12/29/report_apple_slows_ipad_production_kindle_matches_shipments.html

Nice bits of rumors here.

Notably: Apple's iPad production is slowing; the assumption that's because of an upcoming product refresh. The numbers: iPad dropped from 2.1 million to 1.6 million for December. Kindle is at 1.5 million. Analyst "Kuo wrote, that "Kindle is going to mass market from niche market," and that "iPad cannibalization of Kindle is not obvious.""

Here's a little comparison from earlier in the month:

http://www.electronista.com/articles/10/12/08/bn.ships.over.500000.nook.colors.per.month/

Hey, we make 18K a day! A cool half mil a month! Go us!

Yup, go you.

Nice to see the e-reader has truly mainstreamed.

Comments

Re: the workarounds suck

[walkitout]

My understanding is you have to connect your reader to another computer using a USB cable; you can't do it via wifi. Is that correct?

Re: the workarounds suck

[ethelmay.livejournal.com]

I think that's correct -- people are pretty used to that process, having used digital cameras and so forth.

Re: the workarounds suck

[walkitout]

This is probably the right level of convenience for people who are already accustomed to navigating libraries: they know how to request, do ILL, check out the New Books shelves, game the local hold system, etc. It's probably not enough convenience to convince people who are equally read to buy as borrow to borrow instead of buy -- which seems very desirable in a variety of ways, now that I think about it.