Comments on: Don’t believe the Kindle sales numbers … Amazon doesn’t http://usedbooksblog.com/blog/dont-believe-the-kindle-sales-numbers-amazon-doesnt/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:01:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Sunday Night Links: 31 August 2008 « Vavcare Blog http://usedbooksblog.com/blog/dont-believe-the-kindle-sales-numbers-amazon-doesnt/#comment-35612 Sunday Night Links: 31 August 2008 « Vavcare Blog Sun, 24 Jan 2010 10:35:09 +0000 http://usedbooksblog.com/blog/dont-believe-the-kindle-sales-numbers-amazon-doesnt/#comment-35612 [...] Don’t believe the Kindle sales numbers … Amazon doesn’t – Used Book Blog [...] […] Don’t believe the Kindle sales numbers … Amazon doesn’t – Used Book Blog […]

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]]> By: TM http://usedbooksblog.com/blog/dont-believe-the-kindle-sales-numbers-amazon-doesnt/#comment-9246 TM Sun, 24 Aug 2008 02:30:23 +0000 http://usedbooksblog.com/blog/dont-believe-the-kindle-sales-numbers-amazon-doesnt/#comment-9246 Amazon's Bezos touts Kindle's ability to supply newspapers as a primary justification for the device. Bezos: "The convenience of having your newspapers pushed to you full text—newspapers and blogs—is fantastic." And looking at Amazon's website we see that the NY Times ranks as the #1 Amazon "Bestselling" Kindle Newspaper (beating even the WSJ): http://www.amazon.com/s/qid=1219542524/ref=sr_st?rs=165389011&page=1&rh=n%3A165389011&sort=salesrank So, if the NY Times, the #1 "Bestselling" Amazon Kindle Newspaper subs suck, as the NY Times executives say so themselves, well then this reinforces the trend toward overall weak Kindle unit sales. Amazon’s Bezos touts Kindle’s ability to supply newspapers as a primary justification for the device.

Bezos: “The convenience of having your newspapers pushed to you full text—newspapers and blogs—is fantastic.”

And looking at Amazon’s website we see that the NY Times ranks as the #1 Amazon “Bestselling” Kindle Newspaper (beating even the WSJ):

http://www.amazon.com/s/qid=1219542524/ref=sr_st?rs=165389011&page=1&rh=n%3A165389011&sort=salesrank

So, if the NY Times, the #1 “Bestselling” Amazon Kindle Newspaper subs suck, as the NY Times executives say so themselves, well then this reinforces the trend toward overall weak Kindle unit sales.

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