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Source Claims 240K Kindles Sold

Posted by kdawson on from the drm-and-all dept.

Naturalist writes "Exact data on (the Linux-powered) Kindle sales figures have been hard to come by. Amazon is notoriously tight-lipped about it, and although CEO Jeff Bezos did give some Kindle-related information back in July, the company has yet to break out how many readers it has sold to date. Now TechCrunch claims to have spoken to a source close to Amazon with direct knowledge of the company's sales figures. According to this unnamed source, Amazon has sold 240,000 Kindles to date, for an estimated hardware revenue between $86 million and $96 million; media sales would push the total above $100M." We've been following the Kindle since its launch nine months ago.

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  1. more kdawson goodness by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I submitted a story about kdawson being a retard who doesn't know math, but it seems to be getting suppressed.

    1. Re:more kdawson goodness by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      He's under Commander Taco's desk, doing what he does best. Fun face: K Dawson's birth name was Kat Dyson. He changed it to K. Dawson after the sex change, in which a penis was grafted from skin and fat from his left buttock.

  2. Re:ugh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    "I've got some disposable income."

    You disposed of it, didn't you? Now you don't have it.