Another interesting fact is that Amazon shipped around 1.14
Millions Kindles devices in the summer and currently its covers 41.5 % of the total market share of pure ebook readers whereas Apple iPad has got 87.4 % of the total tablet market share before the Samsung Galaxy Tab was released.
Not exact matches
Millions of
Kindles are being sold right now and because Amazon is positioning the Fire to basically be a shortcut to everything at Amazon but e-books, the two
devices aren't, strictly speaking, competitors.
Including the Kindle 2 and larger - sized Kindle DX, Amazon has reportedly sold around 3
million Kindles as of May 2010 (exact figures have not been released), and it's easy to see why the
device is so popular.
Regardless of whether or not you want to call a white paper an eBook, the
millions of Amazon
Kindles, B&N Nooks, Sony Readers and Kobo eReaders — not to mention the literally
millions of iPad, iPhone, Android, PC and Mac
devices with eReading software — are a «reading... [Read more...]
Maybe they are pushing to get people reading on their smartphones instead of
Kindles devices, because
millions and
millions of people use only their smartphone and will not buy a digital book reader.
However, given the hype that is surrounding the
device, and the new models and prices, Amazon should be able to move
million Kindles without too much strain.
Now, the questions becomes, assuming that 4
million Kindles is the right number for this point in time, how is the
device going to perform during the all - important holiday season?
Specific Kindle
device sales numbers are not released by Amazon; however, according to anonymous inside sources, over three
million Kindles had been sold as of December 2009, [145] while external estimates, as of Q4 - 2009, place the number at about 1.5
million.
Although Amazon does not share the number of
Kindles it has sold, it is estimated that the company has shipped five
million to eight
million devices since it appeared four years ago.
Though mobile is exploding in China, the e-reader market so far is relatively tiny for such a large country — compare the 295,200
devices sold in Q3 with the one
million Kindles Amazon.com (NSDQ: AMZN) says it is selling weekly.
Amazon announced last week that it sold more than 4
million Kindles during the holiday shopping season, noting that the Kindle Fire was its most popular
device.
Regardless of whether or not you want to call a white paper an eBook, the
millions of Amazon
Kindles, B&N Nooks, Sony Readers and Kobo eReaders — not to mention the literally
millions of iPad, iPhone, Android, PC and Mac
devices with eReading software — are a «reading friendly» market for your white paper content.