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Amazon Sold Half a Million Kindles in 2008 http://tinyurl.com/c495w6
Amazon Sold Half a Million Kindles in 2008
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That's an estimate according to a banking analyst. It's not factual, verifiable information. I'd take it with many grains of salt. 
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I haven't seen a single kindle in the wild either. yet alone a Sony outside the store display. Amazon hasn't released any info on kindle sales as far as I heard.
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We have CNBC on all day at work (b/c HR is trying to cure a rampant insomnia problem), and if I recall correctly, Amazon rarely releases sales figures of any kind.
Right after Black Friday, Amazon issued a statement along the lines of "best black Friday ever", but analysts were quick to point out there's really no way to tell. amazon didn't release prior-year data, nor did they release data from this year. So I think people who track that sort of thing tend to think of amazon data as "unquantifiable".
I have also not seen a kindle besides my own. And my co-worker, who travels four out of five days every week, has only seen one besides mine. But I've never seen a sony either. By comparison, does anyone know any sort of sales figures for the Sony ereader?
Right after Black Friday, Amazon issued a statement along the lines of "best black Friday ever", but analysts were quick to point out there's really no way to tell. amazon didn't release prior-year data, nor did they release data from this year. So I think people who track that sort of thing tend to think of amazon data as "unquantifiable".
I have also not seen a kindle besides my own. And my co-worker, who travels four out of five days every week, has only seen one besides mine. But I've never seen a sony either. By comparison, does anyone know any sort of sales figures for the Sony ereader?
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I know of three people with the Sony e-reader. I have yet to see a Kindle in the wild.
The 500,000 figure was developed based on Sprints reports on how much whispernet usage there was. It is not a number that I really trust, although the method of getting it was kind of interesting.
The 500,000 figure was developed based on Sprints reports on how much whispernet usage there was. It is not a number that I really trust, although the method of getting it was kind of interesting.
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That would be an interesting thing to see, professor.
Got a link? That sort of derivative number sounds like something Charlie would do on Numb3ers.
Got a link? That sort of derivative number sounds like something Charlie would do on Numb3ers.
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Kindle owners will buy a digital book each month? Apparently, he's never visited kindleboards.ProfCrash said:
Even WN usage is pretty iffy. Some of you have purchased books pre-delivery and download them all at once. I'll wait until I have two or three in queue before downloading. Then I transfer books back and forth between Little Gertie and Amazon. There is no way that can be an accurate estimate.
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Agreed, I don't think the estimation is accurate but I did find the methodology interesting. It was a different way of trying to figure out what they number of Kindles sold is. It is a flawed measure but it is interesting. (shrugs)
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It is interesting. Of course, according to the graph (if I'm reading it correctly), the revenue for FY2008 on half a million kindles was $87,500? I had to have read that wrong. That comes out to a profit of seventeen cents per unit.
And, some people have better whispernet coverage than others, so aren't there a segment of users who mainly get their kindle books through USB download?
It's an interesting set of assumptions. I wonder if anyone doing this research actually owns a kindle, or a sony. It just seems to me like a one book/month/reader download rate is a little on the low side. I mean, generally books are priced the same as a full album on iTunes. So I wonder if the one download/month/user was also used for the ipod (b/c they seem to be making some comparisons between the ipod and the kindle here, which is somewhat on the order of an apples to apples comparison.)
And, some people have better whispernet coverage than others, so aren't there a segment of users who mainly get their kindle books through USB download?
It's an interesting set of assumptions. I wonder if anyone doing this research actually owns a kindle, or a sony. It just seems to me like a one book/month/reader download rate is a little on the low side. I mean, generally books are priced the same as a full album on iTunes. So I wonder if the one download/month/user was also used for the ipod (b/c they seem to be making some comparisons between the ipod and the kindle here, which is somewhat on the order of an apples to apples comparison.)
You missed the first line of the graph, where it says (in thousands), so that's actually $87.5M. Then you also have to note that they amortize that revenue over two years (listed in the line above), so you double it to $177M (the line above the two-year note). That comes out to $350 per unit.robin.goodfellow said:
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