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Originally Posted by JSWolf
I'm curious where you saw these numbers given that Amazon doesn't release numbers. So there's no way these numbers could be accurate. What they are are a guess. They've always been a guess and always will be. I'm not blaming you for posting the numbers. I'm blaming the source(s).
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The numbers came from 3 sources. They had pretty close agreement on the numbers. Given they were quoting total sales and then breaking out the various vendors, they could easily have said, any left over devices are sold by Amazon. Some of the figures I've seen were arrived at by using the sales of eInk screens as the basis for estimating how many ereaders were being made. But then statistics are so much fun. Give statisticians enough paper and pencils and they'll prove anything.
As for not releasing sales figures, it appears that if you checked the British Parliament's web site, you could get the UK sales numbers for Amazon. Your public pounds at work. One site compared those figures to the estimates for Amazon's sales in the UK market for the same period and they were quite close (~2.5% variance one way or the other).
Regards,
David