Amazon sold 3.3 million kindles in 2009
Apr 16, 2010 phones
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I just got a mini stat-tone-beginning in from my bud Ron at e-reader-info.com:
DisplaySearch say that shipments of e-paper increased to 5 million units in 2009, up 417% on year from 950,000 units in 2008, mainly due to the popularity of e-book readers.
The Amazon Kindle has 66% of the totality e-paper market according to DisplaySearch, which means that they sold 3.3 million units.
Why is this relevant? One word: iPad. Yep, the pancaked-iPhone is bulldozing gross sales figures, creation of non-Flash depicted object, and aspersions about it’s size along quite nicely indeed, and of course of action I big small-arm of functionality is the e-book feature. Of course, whilst I big name does not a market make, the iPad is only going to accelerate things along very nicely – so these stats that we see, well, we can expect them to increase almost exponentially again next year.
e-volume readers (at least the dedicated ones) are a routine of a mystery to me, I have to admit – I father’t understand wherefore you’d insist on a digital written matter when you have the tactile response, and in fact nice break from using a small-arm of CE (consumer electronics), that a paper book providers. On big top of that, because of the nature of the displays, they are pretty much only goodness for displaying staple textual matter (though that is changing with the advent of higher-performing colour displays). At the least the iPad improves upon that to a good extent by adding a gross ton more functionality – but even that has it’s issues (or not, if you’re a fanboi!).
Anyway, the arguments are all moot – clearly enough people ar determination the Kindle interesting to shuffling the gross sales figures quite reasonable, and if Amazon do boost the capability of the nex-gen twist they release, I’d suggest they’ll continue those solidness figures. But what say you, IntoMobile collective? Do you believe in the power of e-books, wrapped in a 1-function twist? Or do you gotta be rocking a slate twist with an Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) logotype?
You tin can find out more on the Kindle here.
[Via: e-lecturer-information.com via: E-ink-info]
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