Analyst: Amazon.com's Kindle to generate $750 million by 2010

Courtesy CNET Tech blog  Thu, 05/15/2008 - 12:10pm

Calling it the iPod of the book business, CitiGroup analyst Mark Mahaney says the Kindle e-book reader will generate three-quarters of a billion dollars for Amazon.com in less than two years.

That should account for up to 3 percent of Amazon's business.

See his chart and reasoning here.

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