Amazon's Kindle Blows Past Sales Expectations
That's more than double the number most analysts were predicting, and nearly a fourfold increase from the 2.4 million Kindles Amazon managed to unload in 2009, BusinessWeek says while citing an anonymous source "aware of the company's sales projections."
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This all assumes those numbers are accurate, as Amazon has remained tight lipped when it comes to Kindle sales figures. However, the e-tailer couldn't help but brag that the Kindle 3 is its fastest-selling Kindle of all time, and that's saying something, even without figures to back it up.
None of this is particularly hard to believe. It certainly helps that a semi-recent price war broke out on the eReader battlefields, and for those looking primarily to read electronic books, it makes a lot more sense to invest as little as $139 in a Wi-Fi Kindle 3 than a $499 iPad or take a chance on one of the handful of other tablets sporting pre-3.0 releases of Android.