Kindle student initiative? Plus some skepticism about the blockbuster numbers

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By David Rothman

A student-targeted Kindle initiative from Amazon?

We’ve heard that before, and the Silicon Valley Insider site passes on a Seattle newspaper report indicating it’s so.

In a related vein, the word is that the K machine is doing well, but not to the extent that a Citigroup analyst and others have speculated.

So what are the numbers? They’re still a mystery. Is this SEC territory? I don’t know. But Amazon is a publicly traded company and really needs to be more open with its investors. Future sales are hard to predict. But how about the past?

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