Source Claims 240K Kindles Sold

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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[Zouden]

Wouldn't it make sense to use K?

As a rule, Latin is used for numbers less than 1. Greek is used for numbers greater than 1.

1000 = kilo (greek)
1/1000 = milli (latin)

10 = deca (greek)
1/10 = deci (latin)