Towards the end of the NYT business section article that follows the standard narrative, they note that in BN’s 300-person Palo Alto division, “engineers were putting final touches on their fifth e-reading device, a product that executives said would be released sometime this spring.” The story also says that ceo William Lynch “plans to experiment with slightly smaller stores.” Meanwhile, Amazon offers another nebulous growth statistic to the paper. For the nine-week holiday sales period, ending December 31, “Kindle unit sales, including both the Kindle Fire and e-reader devices, increased 177 percent over the same period last year.” (Amazon will […]
