Thread: Bloomberg: 8 million Kindles sold this year
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Old 12-22-2010, 09:05 AM   #6
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Originally Posted by wallcraft View Post
I'm not sure this is consistent with Amazon: we sold more Kindles this quarter than in all of 2009. Which now indicates 2.4 million in 73 days (and less than 2.4 million in 72 days), and the sales rate was presumably lower earlier in the year.
I think the numbers can fit. E.g.

Total 2009 = 2.4m
Q1 2010 = 1m
Q2 2010 = 1.5m
Q3 2010 = 2m
Q4 2010 = 3.5m

Obviously there is no way to know if these numbers even remotely approach reality, but it at least plausible.


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Originally Posted by wallcraft
Even so, it is clear that the analysts projections were on the low side.
Unfortunately, nothing is really clear about this, since Amazon isn't releasing numbers.

It is possible Amazon intentionally leaked the numbers, but that still doesn't guarantee veracity.
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