{"id":244037,"date":"2010-01-28T17:17:37","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T22:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"Gizmodo-5459051"},"modified":"2010-01-28T17:17:37","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T22:17:37","slug":"amazon-kindle-sales-are-officially-not-embarrassing-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/244037","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Kindle Sales Are Officially Not Embarrassing [Amazon]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amazon’s announced its quarterly results for Q4 2009, and they’re pretty good! Lots of dollars, in this here document<\/a>. But tucked somewhere between the currency symbols and financial jargon was a choice quote from Jeff Bezos<\/a>, about a little secret he’s been keeping: <\/p>\n

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Millions of people<\/strong> now own Kindles, and Kindle owners read, a lot. When we have both editions, we sell 6 Kindle books for every 10 physical books.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Amazon doesn’t provide Kindle sales<\/a> figures. In fact, Amazon doesn’t even provide a Kindle sales ballpark<\/em>, so “millions” is the most specific information we’ve ever seen about how well their ebook reader, and in turn the ebook reader as a product category, is doing. The answer? Not terribly, but not necessarily very well. Baby steps! <\/p>\n

Assuming their app runs on the iPad, which seems safe, those already impressive book sales rates could go through the roof. [Amazon<\/a> via Ina Fried<\/a>]<\/p>\n



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Amazon’s announced its quarterly results for Q4 2009, and they’re pretty good! Lots of dollars, in this here document. But tucked somewhere between the currency symbols and financial jargon was a choice quote from Jeff Bezos, about a little secret he’s been keeping: Millions of people now own Kindles, and Kindle owners read, a lot. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1552,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1552"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}