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Originally Posted by Steven Lake
HA! What have I been saying for months now! The impressive sales and success that Amazon has bragged about is actually a lie! The only time you don't release numbers is when you have nothing to truly brag about. If they actually did have something to brag about, then they'd be throwing sales numbers all over the place. But in reality, they don't! I'd love to see someone sue Amazon and force them to cough up their real numbers. Because if they did and the numbers got out into the wild, I think Amazon would be quite thoroughly embarrassed.
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A couple of questions:
1) Why would anyone sue over Amazon's Kindle sales numbers? All Amazon has been saying about the numbers is that the Kindle is their best-selling product to date, and that they sell more e-books than paper books now. I suppose it's remotely possible, but do you really think they'd lie about the Kindle being their top seller? More importantly, how could the Kindle
not be their top seller? It's on the front page of their site, and part of the navigation menu. You can't really avoid it.
2) Sales numbers can always be parsed. As I've said, I have no doubt at all in my mind that Amazon is #1 in sales of dedicated ereaders, but I don't know how their sales would compare with iPads.
That comparison might not be flattering to them. But again, Amazon hasn't said anything that would lead anyone to believe that the Kindle necessarily outsold the iPad.
Now, I'm fairly certain the Kindle outsold the Nook, but as I said earlier, I don't need sales figures for that. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that Amazon's site gets more traffic than B&N's.