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Old 05-15-2009, 07:44 PM   #207
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Do you have a link for some of that? I'd really like to see how that's phrased.
http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/l...-event-in-nyc/

"We've added 45,000 books in the last three months. Kindle sales are now 35% of books where we have Kindle editions -- that's coincident with the launch of Kindle 2."

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Like my common rebuttal to all the glowiness surrounding Amazon's non-statements about the popularity of the Kindle, if they were really finding that 35% of all sales for books that appear in both print and are not free-in-Kindle-and-counted-as-units-moved, then they'd be very likely crowing even more loudly than they do now.
I won't say they weren't counting free Kindle versions of books; that's something I would do. But the rest of the statement I'm confident is as I've clarified before. Since you're a doubting Thomas, it doesn't matter the exact phrasing; you're not going to believe it unless you corner Jeff personally, pin him down, and even then might believe he's lying.

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In other words, more of the guestimating you mentioned in your original reply.

I'm sorry, but I'm having a really tough time swallowing those figures.
That's fine, but only if you don't trust figures for any other electronic device like cell phones, computers, PDAs, etc. that are regularly bandied about. Can these industry estimates be wrong? Sure. Are they likely to be wrong by more than 50%? No.

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Honestly... how many other readers have been sold during the last few years? I feel certain that the WAGs being palmed off as 'sales figures' for Amazon would outpace everyone else's sales combined.
Sony has sold about 400,000, and there's no data that shows any other ereader has sold any large number of units in the US during this time. Amazon does indeed outpace everyone else's sales. It was on Oprah, you know.

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Even when Amazon does get around to releasing actual figures, the well has been so poisoned that I'm unlikely to believe it even then.
As I suspected when I began writing this response.
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