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Has Amazon ever talked about how many books they have sold? I wonder how many they sold the first month of the Kindle being on sale? I don't think that is neces

by macrael 16y ago

Has Amazon ever talked about how many books they have sold? I wonder how many they sold the first month of the Kindle being on sale? I don't think that is necessarily a number to make Amazon feel safe. I have an iPad but haven't bought any books, but I don't have a Kindle either. I imagine there are people who are buying iPads instead of Kindles, and they are responsible for a disproportionate number of the 1.5M books. Also, I've read a lot of comments on how it is hard to read on an iPad (and some in the other direction) but for what it's worth, I'm in the latter camp. I've done a lot of reading (hurray Instapaper!) on my iPad and it has been a very good experience.

MikeCapone 16y ago
> Has Amazon ever talked about how many books they have sold? I wonder how many they sold the first month of the Kindle being on sale? I don't think that is necessarily a number to make Amazon feel safe. Even if we had that number, I'm not sure it would tell us much because the two devices are very different. On the Kindle, buying books is the primary thing to do. On the iPad, it is just one of many. So while many iPad might be sold to people who will never read e-books, these people probably aren't reading on Kindle or even on paper anyway. The Kindly simply isn't bought by these non-readers, so the average number of books sold per device means something different.
- macrael 16y ago
  Right, that's why I think that the total number of books sold, not the number per device, would be an interesting number to compare. Are there more books being bought for the Kindle or for the iPad? What does that graph look like?
  - mlongo 16y ago
    Well, right now there better be more books selling for the Kindle then for the iPad. :-) The Kindle is a single purpose device that has been on the market for a couple of years and every single one of them was sold to a person who is a regular reader, otherwise they would not have bothered buying a reading device.

by macrael 16y ago

MikeCapone 16y ago

> Has Amazon ever talked about how many books they have sold? I wonder how many they sold the first month of the Kindle being on sale? I don't think that is necessarily a number to make Amazon feel safe. Even if we had that number, I'm not sure it would tell us much because the two devices are very different. On the Kindle, buying books is the primary thing to do. On the iPad, it is just one of many. So while many iPad might be sold to people who will never read e-books, these people probably aren't reading on Kindle or even on paper anyway. The Kindly simply isn't bought by these non-readers, so the average number of books sold per device means something different.

macrael 16y ago
Right, that's why I think that the total number of books sold, not the number per device, would be an interesting number to compare. Are there more books being bought for the Kindle or for the iPad? What does that graph look like?
- mlongo 16y ago
  Well, right now there better be more books selling for the Kindle then for the iPad. :-) The Kindle is a single purpose device that has been on the market for a couple of years and every single one of them was sold to a person who is a regular reader, otherwise they would not have bothered buying a reading device.