Actual device sales were up 64 % year - over-year; digital content sales were up 85 %.
Not exact matches
With so many searches happening on mobile
devices, these queries bring you even closer to an
actual sale.
Amazon itself will likely keep mum on
actual Kindle
sales numbers - a long - running company habit - but the latest
device's prominent position on the bestseller list suggests that tablets and e-reader software for other
devices have done little to cool interest in dedicated
devices for displaying e-text.
Separately, Kobo released some year - on - year growth stats (though no
actual numbers): e-book downloads up 400 percent, e-reader
device sales up 160 percent and the number of people reading internationally with Kobo up 280 percent.
One reason that Amazon may be enjoying this level of success and yet be unwilling to disclose how many
actual devices it has sold is that many of those ebook
sales may not be tied to
actual Kindle
devices.
Amazon has always been super cagey about just how well its Kindle operation does — it never reveals
sales figures for the e-book
devices, or for how many
actual e-books it sells.
This shift from e-reader
devices to tablets has been talked about for some time but it tells us little about
sales of
actual ebooks.
And that includes Nintendo's internal predictions, which fell short of the
device's
actual sales.
Mobile gaming is becoming a more dominant force in the marketplace, with $ 30 billion in
sales expected in 2015; but Nintendo, perhaps owing to its heritage as a toy and hardware producer, has been very slow to enter the app marketplace, dipping its toe in with offerings like «Pokedex for iOS,» which merely provides information to help you play the
actual Pokemon games on the company's handheld
devices.
While this is undoubtedly an impressive feat, it's worth noting that Amazon (as expected) has not released any
actual sales figures, so drawing any comparisons with rival
devices which also enjoyed similar price cuts — like the Google Home Mini or Chromecast — isn't all that helpful at this stage.
Still substantially trailing Fitbit in terms of
actual wearable
device sales, GPS technology pioneer turned activity tracker rising star Garmin sure likes to keep busy, carving out niche after niche in a general landscape dominated by Apple.
US retailer Target rates cashiers on how quickly they get people through the tills, for example, while MetroPCS, the US mobile
device store, uses games to train
sales reps on how to sell phones before they interact with
actual customers.