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Originally Posted by DNSB
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
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OK, so UK numbers are correct. But in the US, no numbers are released. And because of that, it's still a guess. These three sources are guessing and that's all they'll ever be able to do is guess and keep on guessing. There is no way I'll ever trust numbers based on a guess.