Kindles, Nooks & eBook World Domination

To start, we’ll re-report on Giga-Om re-reporting on the New York Times’s report on Jeff Bezo’s and the Kindle.  Here are the key points of the original and the wrap-up:

If a book is available on Kindle, it sells 48 copies compared to 100 physical copies sold.

Kindle launched with 90,000 titles two years ago.

More than 350,000 titles are available for the Kindle now.

Amazon is adding thousands of titles to Kindle library every week.

Amazon wants to offer “every book ever printed in every language, all available within 60 seconds.”

Also, Engadget got their hands on the Nook from Barnes and Noble, and give it a fairly full review.  The results: not great but not hopeless.

Once you get the hang of the system it starts to make some sense, but it’s nothing we’d describe as intuitive, and your rhythm is thrown off by one major factor: the extremely sluggish response of the device.