Source Claims 240K Kindles Sold

Posted by kdawson on Monday August 4, 2008 @11:59AM 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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Re:You know its slashdot when it's.. by antek9 · 2008-08-04 12:04 · Score: 5, Funny

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

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Re:It sucks that "K" and "M" are so close together by Larryish · 2008-08-04 12:46 · Score: 5, Funny

I knew who posted the story without looking.
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Re:Doesn't seem like that many by JakeD409 · 2008-08-04 13:10 · 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?!