I do think the Kindle (part of Amazon’s overall move to selling downloadable inventory) will make a positive difference to Amazon’s future profits, people don’t realize how large the book market is. There are a lot of dollars involved for Amazon’s benefit or they wouldn’t have made this move. Today I was listing a book where it was cheaper to buy the Kindle ebook version than to buy my used hardcover. Kindle wins… quicker for the customer, no wait time for arrival, huge profits. On a sale of a ten dollar hardcover, Amazon takes between $1.80 and $2.00 in commission from me. But a $9.95 Kindle download sales probably nets Amazon at least $4.00, possibly even more depnding on the deal with the publisher, plus minimal employee costs with no storage or shipping costs to sell a download file.

I don’t own any Amazon stock right now but I ought to.

Ebay however is languishing. Sales on Ebay won’t improve until Meg Whitman is gone. She doesn’t get that ecommerce has evolved into something that is non-auction centric, and that your paying customers (the sellers) deserve to be treated well so they can do what they do best… sell stuff. Paypal is really the best run part of Ebay. Enough of my blather I have to go back to work, can’t get enough stuff up on Amazon fast enough. :D