Thread: Amazon: If we released Kindle sales numbers, it would only hurt us
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Old 12-30-2010, 10:49 AM   #10
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Originally Posted by nashira View Post
I'm just baffled at how knowing sales numbers... helps the competition? It's hardly like they can force people to buy their ereaders instead of the Kindle? Er? Tech stuff, I understand. Sales numbers not so much.
But it might reveal that Amazon isn't so far out ahead as many people assume. Media reporting about Kindle would likely have a different tone if its market share was revealed to be 51% rather than 80%. Right now many people buy Kindles because it's a great product, but many others do in part for fear of being on the losing platform. So that information is definitely something that competitors would benefit from knowing.
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