Amazon's Supply Chain  When youve got the monopoly, you set the
records.  Tech writers stuck with the unenviable job of working
this past holiday weekend were blessed with a last-minute gift
from Jeff Bezos: On Dec. 26, Amazon issued a press release
proudly trumpeting the fact that on Christmas Day, for the first
time ever, its online superstore sold more electronic books than
regular books.This is certainly a milestone worth observing.
Amazon has put out what critics have determined to be the
market's best e-reader. And the company's transformation from
hawking the wares of others to creating the "most gifted"
product on its own site is impressive.But there's a simple
explanation for why the Kindle's Christmas Day record isn't that
impressive.If the Kindle sold as well as Amazon claims (and
since they don't release specifics, we'll just have to take
their word for it), then a lot of Kindles were under a lot of
trees. Which meant a lot of people woke up Christmas morning
with an immediate need to fill their