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Amazon.com Reporting This Holiday Season Their "Best Ever"
In a refreshing break from all the doom and gloom, Amazon.com is calling this holiday season their best ever. Reporting a 44 percent rise in the number of items sold, they are refusing to provide actual dollar amounts, so it is still a very subjective measurement. "Amazon customers ordered more than 6.3 million items on Dec. 15, compared with roughly 5.4 million on its peak day last year, the company said. It shipped more than 5.6 million products on its best day, a 44 percent rise over 2007, when it shipped about 3.9 million on its busiest day. The company did not provide dollar figures and wouldn't say whether the average value of orders had changed, and the jumps it reported Friday are in line with increases Amazon has seen since it started releasing the figures in 2002."
An excellent point. Bezos has a vested interest in the kindle as a means to further wrest control away from brick and mortar outlets like Barnes & Noble and Borders. He's not going to instruct his bean counters to let on with the truth, which is people really prefer tactile books, with pages that you turn and bookmark with real bookmarks.
This is the last Xmas I use Amazon. They botched every order, and when subcontractors ran out of stock on toys, they all waited until Xmas Eve to let me know they wouldn't be filling my order. One went ahead and charged my credit card anyhow. What a great model Bezos has - he doesn't actually have to do the work, he's just the front end to other stores that don't have his name recognition.
Amazon is increasingly a house of cards.
Since you don't cite any useful data and just offer your word, I'm going to have to ask: Jeff, is that you?
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