{"id":6794,"date":"2010-01-28T22:17:37","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T22:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/amazon-kindle-sales-are-officially-not-embarrassing-amazon\/"},"modified":"2010-01-28T22:17:37","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T22:17:37","slug":"amazon-kindle-sales-are-officially-not-embarrassing-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/futurist\/amazon-kindle-sales-are-officially-not-embarrassing-amazon.php","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Kindle Sales Are Officially Not Embarrassing [Amazon]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amazon's announced its quarterly results for Q4 2009, and they're pretty good! Lots of dollars, in this here document<\/a>. But tucked somewhere between the currency symbols and financial jargon was a choice quote from Jeff Bezos<\/a>, about a little secret he's been keeping: <\/p>

Millions of people<\/strong> now own Kindles, and Kindle owners read, a lot. When we have both editions, we sell 6 Kindle books for every 10 physical books.<\/p><\/blockquote>

Amazon doesn't provide Kindle sales<\/a> figures. In fact, Amazon doesn't even provide a Kindle sales ballpark<\/em>, so \"millions\" is the most specific information we've ever seen about how well their ebook reader, and in turn the ebook reader as a product category, is doing. The answer? Not terribly, but not necessarily very well. Baby steps! <\/p>

Assuming their app runs on the iPad, which seems safe, those already impressive book sales rates could go through the roof. [Amazon<\/a> via Ina Fried<\/a>]<\/p>

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