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 sunderland56 · 2008-08-04 13:48 · Score: 5, Insightful

For anyone who has worked in banking in the US, M means thousand, and MM means million.
The target audience of slashdot is geeks - specifically, engineering/computer geeks. This audience uses K for thousand.
If you want to use M for thousand on bankerdot.org, sure, go for it.