![]() What happened next is well-known: successive iterations of the Kindle were released with better specs, greater capacity, and new features, always allied with a lower price. It’s amazing now to think that even Amazon didn’t realize how much latent hunger there was for digital reading. And it didn’t just sell out, it sold its entire Christmas stock.Īmazon wasn’t able to put it back on sale until April 2008-five months later. I remember thinking no one would ever use such a clunky thing to read a book, and they certainly wouldn’t pay $399 for it!īut maybe Jeff Bezos isn’t quite as visionary as popularly depicted because that first Kindle sold out in five-and-a-half hours. There are a lot of interesting articles circulating about the launch on 19 November 2007 and it’s funny looking back at that first device, which resembled a slimmed-down fax machine. It’s almost exactly ten years to the day that the first Kindle was launched, along with the accompanying Kindle Store - as I write these words, at least, on a cold November morning in 2017. ![]()
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