2 posts and columns on sales numbers

Amazon’s Kindle DX Pulls a Disappearing Act

in Media on June 16, 2009 at 6:42 am PT

At some point, this will no longer be a coincidence: Once again, Amazon’s newest e-book reader has sold out shortly after launch. This time, it’s the Kindle DX, the super-sized reader with the super-sized price tag. Amazon started selling the DX three days ago, and by yesterday afternoon the e-commerce giant said it was cleaned out. The next batch won’t arrive until next week.
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Citigroup Analyst Eligible for Remedial Kindlegarten?

in News on August 15, 2008 at 5:21 pm PT

How well is Amazon’s Kindle electronic book reader really doing? Well, according to Citigroup’s Mark Mahaney, whose analytical prowess enables him to extrapolate sales figures from little more than Kindle’s sales ranking on Amazon’s Web site and from the number of customer reviews it has received, the Kindle is doing quite well. But according McAdams Wright Ragen analyst Tim Bueneman, who’s actually, you know, spoken with some Amazon officials, it might not be selling as well as Mahaney claims.