Amazon.com has been promoting Kindle, their new e-book reader, for weeks and weeks and weeks. That's fine to a point, but two things about it are driving me absolutely crazy.

First, the Kindle has been monopolizing their home page non stop (at least the version that they serve to me every time I visit). Second, it's not available. It's always sold out.

That's right -- you can't even get one right now, and it's been that way the past few times I've clicked through to the item page. What a waste of home page real estate. They should at least downplay it a little until it is back in stock. I wonder how much business they are losing by perpetually promoting an out-of-stock product in a location where they should be maximizing every opportunity to generate immediate revenue.