Amazon: Kindle Outsold Everything in November

could it be because you can buy Kindle ONLY from Amazon????

I bought the kindle DX as launch for my wife being that she is a huge book reader and we live in a small condo the books she amassed over took my collection of PC parts. The kindle is every small house holds book dilemma it is compact and can hold thousands of books and is amazing to read from.

I'm waiting on the e-readers as well. Mostly because I am afraid of buying a bunch of digital books which may not be supported or available on products and networks 5 years from now. At least with music we have a semi-universal and safe format of MP3 but I don't think that exists for digital books yet. From my point of view, the whole episode with Amazon remotely deleting 1984 from peoples devices proves to me that you don't fully own the rights to the files.

When they say " it's flying off the shelves faster than any other product Amazon sells" do they mean products that amazon manufactures or all products in their warehouse?With the ammount of sold out deals they had leading up to the thanksgiving weekend they must have kept stock levels real low(Like Arkham Asylum on PC,damn that sold so fast).I dont beleive that the kindle outsold evrey other deal they had there, they had some damn good deals,I picked up Tales of Symphoniaawn of the new World for free when they droppped the price due to the $10 credit i got when i pre ordered new Super Mario Bros Wii,with free shipping too, crazy stuff.

I await the news article about the record high Kindle sales on eBay and craigslist this January and February.

No, it can't play Crysis

Not impressed Sorry. The Kindle will have to go Color display and be compatable with all Books and beable to take Pictures before i will buy.

While I have a few ebooks, they are all older books that I want to reread. I looked up a new book, and it was $29.99 for the ebook. Its the same damn price for the hard cover.

LOL Am I the only person who never heard of the Kindle before today? Technically yesterday, when someone on my Facebook said how they wanted one.

Seriously though, are we so enthralled with technology now that we can't use a real book? Last time I checked, paperbacks didn't need recharged or plugged in, and they don't become obsolete when Amazon starts selling some new version.

apmyhr: +1

I prefer my books to be DRM free and impossible for the publisher to snatch out of my hands after I've bought it.

Just got one myself, and while I haven't played with it much, I do like the amount of free and low price content available, and the display is more readable than I had guessed. Amazon has got a pretty good early lead on all competitors, so if I had to handicap the race I would bet on their format to emerge as the de facto standard. It will be nice not to have as many books cluttering up the house, and I can probably feed my daughter's voracious reading appetite a bit more cheaply now (and yes, we do go to the library...). Consider me an optimistic user...

I was at B&N today and heard several people asking about the Nook. Not only do you have to wait for January for one that you buy now, but the store isn't going to get there demo Nook until January. Yes they have valuable sign space in the store taken up by ads for the Nook. I suspect someone is going to have a miserable January when the "what went wrong" internal meetings take place. Meanwhile the Kindle gets to increase its lead.

I'm just waiting to see if this whole e-reader thing takes off.

I didn't know people like reading so much. I bought myself a PS3 instead.

Forget the e-reader thing, I am waiting to see if the whole reading thing takes off.

I got a Kindle for a Christmas gift last year. At the time, I wasn't sure if I would ever use it. As it turns out, it's one of the best gifts I've ever received in my life. I use it everyday. I have manuals stored on it that I use at work in addition to regular books. Most of the classics are available for free so I've had fun re-reading some and reading some classics for the first time. I also use it to listen to audio books from audible.com. It's a great little device to have if your a reader. If you're not then it's not for you though because that is really the only use for it. It does have a built in web browser but it's like surfing the web on a mobile phone only with no color.

I personally would not buy a kindle

But i love the fact so many people are buying it, just for the reason that it saves paper, who knows maybe in the not so distant future books will be E-Reader only?

I'm still a fan of good old fashioned books.

I haven't bought one and I don't intend to purchase one.

You can count me as one of the billions of people who didn't purchase one. I don't make a habit of reading in the dark, my books are inherently portable (they are books), and I don't fancy reading more than one book at a time. Not going to berate people for buying it but I hope they at least did the math and found it to be a cost-savings endeavor. Math didn't work out well for me. I would have to buy about triple the amount of books per year I currently buy just to break even over 3 years. Not worth it.

I have to count myself among those also skeptical of amazons claim of popularity.

I'm waiting for essentially a web browser in a tablet with wifi (and maybe 3g too) that doesn't use proprietary reader formats. I want open document format supported for sure and PDF for sure and HTML for sure and maybe a few others would be fine too. Really want to avoid getting my books stuck in any device or vendor owned format.

Last post responded my question, so my new question would be...

are there any format converter available for the kindle?

Give me a color device that can do pictures (comics), music, video, and and ebooks with a battery life of 8 hours for video playback, and I will buy it. (My Archos 5 gets 6-7 hours of video playback, and my PSP gets about 7.5)

Oh, and it should have a nice big hard drive that's bigger than 100GB, and can use any file manager program, be it Windows Explorer or whatever, to load stuff, so I don't have to install some crappy software that wants to sync everything all the time.

Waiting for an e-reader that is 8x11 in size so i can carry around my must have tech books. Pocket size is too small.

I'm buying a Nook. From Barnes & Noble it's options are much better then any other ereader out there. New hard backs are only $9.99. Plus B&N classics are free to download.

you can get your hands on certain other mobile de\/ices that fit in your pocket and do SO much more for around the same price. Why are people buying this? eg: n8xx full day of batt life, fits in pocket, will do e-books web, games, mo\/ies, etc.

Had one for over a year now. Love it, outside of the fact I now buy more books and read far more than I ever did before. It's pretty awesome, better than a real book and very portable and useful. Can't see what the whole "color" hubub is about, none of my hardcovers/paperbacks are color print either

I don't know if I want to make the jump to an ereader. I worry about the fate of my books as new versions of the ereader are released and as time passes. Even a common paperback can easily last 50 years - can the same be said of a Kindle and the content on it? Words written on paper, wood or stone last until entropy destroys the material or your language is forgotten. The same can't be said for any digital format.

great idea the kindle, imagine how many trees can be saved!!