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Amazon Says Kindle Sales Will Pass Paperbacks Within a Year

Amazon gives out almost no real data about its Kindle sales, and even less guidance. So mark down this rare prediction from CEO Jeff Bezos, via an interview with USA Today: “I predict we will surpass paperback sales sometime in the next nine to 12 months. Sometime after that, we’ll surpass the combination of paperback and hardcover. It stuns me.”

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Nobody was excited about paying top dollar for a movie about WikiLeaks. A film about the origins of Pets.com would have done better.

— Gitesh Pandya of BoxOfficeGuru.com comments on the dreadful opening weekend box office numbers for “The Fifth Estate.”