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

    Bzzzt. For anyone who has worked in banking in the US, M means thousand, and MM means million. It bugs me to this day when people write 240M when they mean 240 million.

    M is also used in the advertising industry for thousands. For example, the cost of an ad buy can be given in thousands of impressions, known as CCM (cost per thousand).

  3. 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?

  4. 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?!

  5. Re:You know its slashdot when it's.. by sunderland56 · · 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.

  6. Re:You know its slashdot when it's.. by Zouden · · Score: 5, Informative

    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)

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