AMAZON: We Doubled Kindle Sales - Business Insider

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Amazon has another (pretty much) informationless press release out about Kindle sales this morning.?

The closest thing we get to real data: Worldwide Kindle sales over the holiday shopping weekend were more than double last year's sales.?

Awesome! Right?

Well, we have no clue because Amazon has never revealed absolute Kindle sales numbers. For all we know, Amazon sold 10,000 Kindle tablets and e-readers over the weekend.?

Amazon regularly puts out press releases like this. It brags about the Kindle being the best-selling item on Amazon.com, but doesn't say what that really means.?

It sounds good, so people assume Kindle is kicking butt.?

But, over the weekend, IBM released data on holiday shopping traffic on tablets. Surprisingly, Barnes & Noble's?Nook family had more tablet traffic than the Kindle family. Both of them were getting clobbered by the iPad, which had 88 percent of tablet shopping traffic.?

While we don't have any hard numbers about the Kindle's success, we assume it's meeting the company's internal goals because it has been expanding the line up every year since Amazon introduced the Kindle.?

Here's the full release:

Worldwide Kindle Device Sales More Than Double Last Year?s Record Over Holiday Shopping Weekend

Cyber Monday is biggest day ever for Kindle sales worldwide The top 4 spots on the worldwide?Amazon?best sellers list since launch nearly three months ago are Kindle e-readers and Kindle Fires SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 27, 2012-- (NASDAQ: AMZN)?Amazon today announced that this Black Friday and Cyber Monday were the best ever for the Kindle family, and the popular new Kindle e-readers and tablets remain at the top of Amazon?s best sellers list worldwide. Milestones for Kindle sales this holiday shopping weekend include: Cyber Monday 2012 was the biggest day ever for Kindle sales worldwide. The top 4 spots on the worldwide?Amazon?best sellers list since launch nearly three months ago are Kindle e-readers and Kindle Fires. To celebrate Cyber Monday,?Amazon.com?offered a special deal?just?$129?for the Kindle Fire. Customers flocked to the deal, making this the biggest Cyber Monday deal ever for Amazon.com. Kindle Fire HD is the most gifted and most wished for product on?Amazon?worldwide since launch. 9 out of the top 10 best-selling products on?Amazon?worldwide since 9/6 are Kindles, Kindle accessories and digital content. ?Kindle e-readers and Kindle Fires have held the top 4 spots on the?Amazon?worldwide best sellers list since launch, and that was before the busiest shopping weekend of the year,? said Dave Limp, Vice President, Amazon Kindle. ?We?re excited that customers made this Black Friday and Cyber Monday the best ever for Kindle worldwide?Cyber Monday was the biggest day ever for Kindle sales, and we?re looking forward to millions of customers opening a new Kindle this holiday season.? The Kindle family is available for purchase on?Amazon.com?as well as at retailers like?Best Buy,Radio Shack?and?Staples?in time for the holidays: The?$69?Kindle?small, light and fast, Kindle is the perfect entry-level Kindle for any reader. Kindle Paperwhite?the world?s most advanced e-reader?only?$119. Kindle Paperwhite 3G?with the unparalleled added convenience of free 3G, no hunting for or paying for Wi-Fi hot spots, no monthly fees, and no annual contracts?only?$179. Kindle Fire?all-new upgraded version of the best-selling standard definition Kindle Fire with a faster processor, twice the memory and longer battery life - all for an even lower breakthrough price?only?$159. Kindle Fire HD?the world's most-advanced 7? tablet, with a stunning custom HD display, the fastest Wi-Fi, exclusive?Dolby?audio, powerful processor and graphics engine, and 16 GB of storage?only?$199. Kindle Fire HD 8.9??comes with all the same advanced technology on a stunning 8.9? large-screen 1920x1200 HD display with 254 ppi and a powerful OMAP 4470 processor and graphics engine?only?$299. Kindle Fire HD 8.9? 4G?the same high-end large-screen HD tablet, 32 GB of storage, plus ultra-fast 4G LTE wireless powered by the latest generation 4G chipset, and groundbreaking$49.99?one year 4G LTE AT&T data package?only?$499.

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