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Originally Posted by Nate the great
He was talking about the total number of Kindles, both the original and the K2. He also said that estimate of 500k for the original is simply impossible. There is barely a million 6" screens in existence. There's no way Amazon could have gotten that many.
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This might be correct. The total number of 6" screens does place an upper limit on the number of Readers. The problem, though, is that "barely a million" isn't a very accurate number either. The few reports we got last year from PVI sources indicated that the K1 was outselling the Sonys, but Sony had a multi-year head start on the Kindle. There were 300K Sony Readers at the end of last year, and my guess is that there were ~300K K1s at that point but it could be ~200K or ~500K.
For me, the important number is ~1M EInk Readers of all brands. This will be at least 2M by the end of the year and perhaps 3M. Do we know what PVIs current production limit is?