Kindle 3 Sets Amazon Sales Record

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Amazon.com says the Kindle is its all-time best seller, surpassing Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. The eReader succeeded despite competition from Apple’s iPad with its attractive price tag of $139. While the sales figures are good news for Amazon, they still lost 15% of the eReader market. Read the full article at InformationWeek.com

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Shelly Palmer

Shelly Palmer is Fox 5 New York's On-air Tech Expert (WNYW-TV) and the host of Fox Television's monthly show Shelly Palmer Digital Living. He also hosts United Stations Radio Network's, Shelly Palmer Digital Living Daily, a daily syndicated radio report that features insightful commentary and a unique insiders take on the biggest stories in technology, media, and entertainment. He is Managing Director of Advanced Media Ventures Group, LLC an industry-leading advisory and business development firm and a member of the Executive Committee of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (the organization that bestows the coveted Emmy® Awards).

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  • http://roberthheath.bloodspot.com Robert H. Heath

    Shelly -

    I think you’ve misquoted the Info Week piece, which itself seems to have confused iPad shipments with iPhone shipments.

    47 million Kindles at $139 comes to more than $6 billion, or roughly 20% of Amazon’s trailing yearly revenue.

    At any rate, enjoy the snow!

    -rhh

  • http://twitter.com/cedric Cedric Ingrand

    47 Million ?!? The article you link to says no such thing, these are the sales it attributes to the iPad, while quoting another Information Week article that rightly attributes the number to _iPhone_ sales. See here: http://www.informationweek.com/news/infrastructure/management/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=228900159

    Direct quote: “iPhone shipments in the fourth quarter of this year were estimated at 15.5 million units, bringing the total for the year to 47 million units.”

    FWIW, estimates point to Kindle sales of around eight million units, still hugely impressive.

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