{"id":7056,"date":"2009-11-30T09:49:24","date_gmt":"2009-11-30T17:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/?p=7056"},"modified":"2010-05-10T00:20:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-10T08:20:00","slug":"kindles-1-but-its-not-as-impressive-as-it-sounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/electrotech\/kindles-1-but-its-not-as-impressive-as-it-sounds","title":{"rendered":"Kindle’s #1 (but it’s not as impressive as it sounds)"},"content":{"rendered":"

$\"kindle\"$ <\/a>If you’re scouring Amazon for their great Cyber Monday Deals today<\/a>, you may want to check out their number one selling item.<\/p>\n

Blue-Ray DVDs? Wii consoles? Going Rogue?\u00c2\u00a0<\/em> Nope. Amazon released a press release today stating that the Kindle, the incumbent eReader facing competition from Barnes & Noble’s Nook<\/a>, is currently its top dog.<\/p>\n

Thanks to a recent international launch and\u00c2\u00a0a price cut, the Kindle is, according to Amazon Vice President Ian Freed, “flying off the shelves<\/a>.” But how fast it’s flying is still cause for speculation, since Amazon has yet to release any hard sales numbers to the public.<\/p>\n

Plus, as Gizmodo writer John\u00c2\u00a0Herrman points out,\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0it’s easy to make a bestselling item when you have a monopoly on the device<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Of course, being #1 on Amazon is still no small feat – we’re just anxious to find out how the Kindle will fare once (and if) B&N gets their act together\u00c2\u00a0<\/a>to\u00c2\u00a0promote\/distribute their\u00c2\u00a0much spiffier Nook.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

Read More<\/a> {Gizmodo}<\/p>\n