Amazon didn't release any Kindle
Fire sales figures, but iSuppli was able to estimate the tablet's performance at a respectable 3.9 million units sold.
Since we know neither Kindle
Fire sales figures, nor Kindle Fire 2 sales figures, it becomes an exercise in futility.
We don't have any comparable Kindle
Fire sales figures to contrast with that, but consider this: Analysts estimate Amazon sold approximately 3.9 million Kindle Fires in 2011.
Not exact matches
The
sales figures posted on her site reveal that
Fire Emblem Awakening sold 1.79 million copies worldwide as of December 2014.
Amazon introduced the original Kindle
Fire last fall, and it quickly became the company's most successful product, capturing 22 percent of U.S. tablet
sales in its first year by Amazon's
figures.
As always, Amazon doesn't release
sales figures and it is difficult to predict whether the Kindle
Fire product line is popular.
The
Fire tablet was its most - popular Kindle device, but the retailer did not provide exact
sales figures.
We come across reports of the Kindle
Fire and the Nexus range of tablets slowly gaining prominence with an ever increasing
sales figure.
Amazon never releases
sales figures for Kindles or
Fire tablets so you never know what is going on behind the curtain.
And if that
figure includes Amazon's Kindle
Fire tablet, which reportedly reached 5 million to 6 million unit
sales in the fourth quarter, it doesn't leave much for all the other slates that hit store shelves over the last couple years.
While Amazon closely guards its
sales figures for both ebooks and e-reader devices, the press release did mention that the post-holiday windfall from the
sale of Kindles and Kindle
Fire tablets has allowed them to raise the amount designated in the fund for KDP Select authors.
Apple tablets have always sold in millions and the only other tablet device to have breached the million
sales figure mark is perhaps the Kindle
Fire.
Third - party
sales figures published in 2014 suggested that Amazon had only sold 35,000
Fire phones.
And the reason I didn't try to
figure out the percentage of Google Android tablet
sales for the whole market is because we don't have numbers for Android tablets that don't use Google apps or accounts, i.e.: Kindle
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Fire Phone inventory.
Although exact
sales figures are a mystery
Fire tablet
sales have nearly tripled, up 184 % year - over-year.
Although Amazon is pretty tight - lipped about
sales figures, all indications are that the Amazon products — and especially the Kindle
Fire — performed well for Target.
There are more such devices coming along in the 7 inch segment, while the Kindle
Fire is expected to rake in some serious
sales figures as well.
Pity there aren't exact
sales figures for two of the biggest selling Android tablets: the Nexus 7 or Kindle
Fire.
If this is true, then its surely good news for Amazon as it does have the upcoming holiday season to rake up some impressive
sales figure with the Kindle
Fire.
Amazon did not released exact
sales figures but said that it has sold millions of
Fire tablets and that demand remained strong.
Google never disclosed
sales figures for the Nexus 7, which is manufactured by Asus, but according to analytics firm Localytics Google's tablet owns 8 percent of the global Android tablet market share, trailing Amazon's Kindle
Fire family (33 percent), Barnes & Noble's Nook (10 percent), and Samsung's gaggle of slates (9 percent).
People are going to be VERY surprised when Kindle
Fire HD and Surface Tablet and Google Nexus 7
sales figures are revealed at the end of 2012.
Unsurprisingly, Amazon took this moment to tout the Kindle
Fire's success — while the company still hasn't officially given any
sales figures, Amazon claims the Kindle
Fire has taken 22 percent of the US tablet market.
According to IDC, Amazon — which does not release precise tablet
sales figures — was in fifth place with a 2.3 percent share, but
sales of its Kindle
Fire tablets slid 70 percent from a year earlier in the past quarter to 1.7 million units.
Typically reluctant about releasing specific
sales figures, Amazon revealed at the end of December that it sold more than 1 million Kindle devices each week throughout the month, a
figure that included the
Fire as well as the Kindle e-readers.
Of course, since Amazon never releases
sales figures for the Kindle
Fire it's impossible to tell how well its tablet is selling relative to Apple's (AAPL) devices.
Amazon also noted that its Kindle products — particularly the Kindle
Fire HD devices — were the best selling products on the site once again, though the retailer declined again to provide specific
sales figures.
Barnes and Noble hasn't released any actual
sales figures for the Nook Tablet, and neither has Amazon for the Kindle
Fire, but if you look closely at some of the signs it becomes clear that the Nook Tablet isn't selling nearly as well as the Kindle
Fire.
Although the 7 - inch tablet can not compare to the Apple iPad in terms of features, a comparison of the
sales figures lends an idea of how successful the Kindle
Fire potentially could be if orders continue to roll in briskly.
Amazon has never released an actual Kindle
Fire sales number, so the 22 percent
figure constitutes an unusual disclosure for the company.
At any rate come January 2016, publishers will doubtlessly be sucking air through their teeth looking at the low
sales figures of their great white AAA hope for Q4 and some less patient publishers will probably
fire some talented developers and close studios.
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Either way, the midrange of
sales — which by Art Basel standards is in the six
figures — was on
fire.