Wired has an article on the boycott, by some energetic Amazon Kindle users, of Kindle e-books priced over $9.99; they're using Amazon's tagging system to identify books which go beyond their maximum acceptable pricing.
Included in this piece of news were a couple of interesting nuggets by Priya Ganapatti:
Last year, sales of e-books rose 68.4 percent from the year before to $113.2 million, even as overall book sales fell 2.8 percent, according to the Association of American Publishers. Much of that growth has been driven by the Kindle's popularity.' ...
Well, that's what several papers are reporting. This was more or less announced some months ago about Bezos' conversations with textbook companies and the goal of a larger unit for textbooks and periodicals coming out by Xmas. But the announcement in only April will likely involve more details already (and a possibly earlier release date?). Maybe to get ahead of Plastic Logic's goal for early 2010? And before all the newspapers fail? Hearst has been putting heavy money behind E-Ink (see previous articles).
