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Originally Posted by pagansoul
Released in November 2007, the Kindle has sold more than a quarter million units. Its texts account for 10 percent of Amazon's book sales despite the fact that 200,000 titles -- a tiny fraction of the books offered on the site -- are available in digital form.
The above is from CNN.
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Interesting. Do you have a link to that article? I'd like to see the rest of it.
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Originally Posted by maggotb0y
That same article goes on to mention the following:
While exact sales figures are hard to come by, recent estimates have put the Kindle's sales on par with other high-profile mobile devices in their first year. Amazon.com says that the Kindle is currently sold out due to heavy demand.
So I'd take those numbers with a grain of salt
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I'm afraid I tend to take pretty much
anything CNN reports well salted -- touting a specific datum early in a report and then later admitting that it was ... let's call it "colonically generated," seems to be about par for their course.
Which is one reason I'd really like to see the whole article, if I can.
