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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. Re:uhhh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I read it and assumed there was some sort of Three Kindles Per Child thing going on.

  2. Re:You know its slashdot when it's.. by antek9 · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's not M as in Million, it's M as in Mousand.

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  3. Everything old is new again by Wordplay · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sales figures look much more exciting in roman numerals!

  4. Re:uhhh by bobdotorg · · Score: 2, Funny

    No, No!

    They sold 240 MegaKindles, each of which is one seventh the physical size of the Library of Congress.

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  5. Great Title by EdIII · · Score: 4, Funny

    When I read the 240M title I wondered where my Kindle was in the house and why I could not remember even buying it :)

  6. Compromise on L by EmbeddedJanitor · · Score: 3, Funny

    240l of Kindles is approx 65 gallons.

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    1. Re:Compromise on L by Ungrounded+Lightning · · Score: 4, Funny

      240l of Kindles is approx 65 gallons

      But you can only get that if they blend.

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  7. Re:It sucks that "K" and "M" are so close together by Larryish · · Score: 5, Funny

    I knew who posted the story without looking.

    mdawson?

  8. Re:You know its slashdot when it's.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    For example, the cost of an ad buy can be given in thousands of impressions, known as CCM (cost per thousand).

    Are you sure it doesn't mean Clickety-Clicks per Moron?

  9. Re:Doesn't seem like that many by JakeD409 · · Score: 5, Funny

    The main advantage of the Kindle over the iPhone is actually the fact that it's not a phone; do you realize how high you jump when you're sitting in a quiet place deeply into a horror novel, and right at the scariest part, the damn thing RINGS at you?!

  10. Re:You know its slashdot when it's.. by Kyro · · Score: 3, Funny

    Is that why the U.S. banking system went belly-up?

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  11. Re:Doesn't seem like that many by Free+the+Cowards · · Score: 2, Funny

    Welcome to Slashdot, where if you can't be the absolute best at everything, you might as well not bother at all.

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  12. Re:You know its slashdot when it's.. by Reverend528 · · Score: 4, Funny

    This audience uses K for thousand

    No, we use K for 2**10, which is 1024, not 1000.

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  13. Re:You know its slashdot when it's.. by shellbeach · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's not M as in Million, it's M as in Mousand.

    Yeah, they should have used K as in Kousand ...

  14. Re:You know its slashdot when it's.. by Jellybob · · Score: 2, Funny

    And the of course there's the Bakers Kilobyte.