Comments on: Amazon’s downtime: Lesson on the need for e-book and p-book industries not to rely too much on one company?

By: Jon Noring

Jon Noring — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 19:35:53 +0000

Thanks David P.! I did a super-quick Google search, saw a number like $1.2 billion (10 times smaller than your number) and used that. I probably should have done a little more research to get a more accurate number.

Nevertheless, whether $40 or $400/second, any downtime more than a few seconds is major.

By: Rob Amend

Rob Amend — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 19:10:54 +0000

As of 3:08 Eastern Time, still not available.

http://www.amazonsellercommunity.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=154665&tstart=0

By: gps

gps — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 18:58:24 +0000

at 2:58 Service unavailable

By: David Petersen

David Petersen — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 18:39:47 +0000

Amazon is down for me here in Seattle as well. I’m just a few miles away from the old headquarters building. Also like to comment on Jon Norings revenue per second quick calculation. I did with Amazon reported 2007 yearly revenue of 14,835 Million or 14,835,000,000.00 divided by the seconds in a year at 31,556,926 to get about 470.10 per second in sales lost. Reported 2007 profit of about 476 Million equals about 15.00 per second in lost revenue. I got the yearly revenue from Answers.com and the yearly seconds total from Google.com. From working in IT this can get some heads rolling – right out the door. I agree that no one company should control everything. People want everything to be easy but this can come at a great cost when that one thing stops working. Thanks, DWP.

By: B. Scott Andersen

B. Scott Andersen — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 18:31:16 +0000

Sandy (love of my life 28+ years) poo-poo’ed by Sony Reader for quite a while. I thought, “heck would freeze over before I sell her on a Kindle.”

Lo and behold, last night she decides to make the jump to a Kindle. Great! She orders it… and Amazon crashes.

Sorry, this is probably our fault. {grin}

Hopefully Amazon will be up again soon.

– Scott

By: Jon Noring

Jon Noring — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 18:16:42 +0000

I did a quick search of Amazon’s annual sales revenue, and from a number I found online which seems plausible, Amazon’s sales revenue works out to about $40 per second.