The Kindle, Amazon’s reading revolution on backorder

I don’t know about you, but I’m getting a little upset with these supply-and-demand games that Nintendo with the Wii, Microsoft with the Zune 80 and now Amazon with their brand new Kindle seem to be playing. Sure, there is nothing wrong with with holding a bit of stock to build up anticipation and hype every once in a while, but enough is enough. As of early Wednesday, November 21st Amazon officially ran out of Kindles. The do inform us that they will have more Kindles in stock again on the 29th.

There is no telling if this is a consequence of consumer demand exceeding Amazon’s forecasts as to how many people would want this thing, or if Amazon is taking a page out of Nintendo’s book and creating a little product scarcity to drum up business.

So, should we cut Amazon a bit of slack and assume that they genuinely ran out of stock or are they playing with the supply, to get a bit more press coverage?

Via [BlankBaby]