Biggest sales day for Kindle as Amazon sells three times unknown number!
Amazon has thrilled the tech industry with the story Biggest Sales Day Ever for Kindle Family on Black Friday: Kindle Sales Triple the Previous Record. As you can tell from the press release’s title, Amazon sold a whopping three times more Kindles than on any other day. The total sales of Kindle Family devices were [figure redacted by Amazon], which looks hugely impressive when compared to the previous figure, which was [figure redacted by Amazon].
Naturally, this compares favourably to the sales of Apple’s iPads, mostly in the minds of tech hacks who totally ignore the thorny issue of Amazon never actually providing any figures whatsoever, and who don’t realise that, for all we know, Amazon’s previous record might have been seven Kindles.
Amazon continues:
Customers can learn more about the Kindle family at www.amazon.co.uk/kindlefamily.
Although not, you know, how many Kindles it’s actually sold.
this suggests last year they did 1 million/week in november, so 150.000 a day, which suggest half a mill this black friday
this http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/29/amazon-we-sold-over-4-million-kindle-devices-this-month-gifting-of-e-books-up-175-percent/
Still doesn’t give the exact figure that they tripled this year.
Almost as bad as Sony giving figures for its consoles based on how many it has shipped to retail, not the actual sales.
For me the worse is not the missing number, it’s that they bundle together the sales of the e-paper cheap and functionally unrelated Kindle together with the actual tablet models.
IMHO that’s would be like Apple bundling all iPod lines together with the iPad sales figures.