Kindle Fire Helps Amazon Set Holiday Sales Record - robertslethed

Amazon says it sold to a higher degree a million Kindles per week during December, and millions of Kindle Fires during the holiday shopping season, setting sales records for the society.

The heavily advertised Kindle family held the top trinity spots on Amazon's gross sales charts, with the Kindle Fire leading the pack, followed by the Kindle Touch and the non-relate Raise e-reader. The Fire, Amazon said, is the superfine-selling, most gifted and most wished for production happening Virago.com since the 7-inch tablet went on sale 13 weeks past.

E-books also had a vehement showing, with gifting of Kindle books up 175 percent between Black Friday and Christmas Day, compared to the same catamenia last year. Christmas Sidereal day also brought record e-book downloads for Amazon atomic number 3 endue-getters pixilated up their gadgets with things to read.

Kindle Fire Helps Amazon Set Holiday Sales Record

Amazon discharged look-alike Kindle sales data a couple weeks ago, avoiding exact sales figures, as usual. The company has been a bit more specific roughly sales this year, revealing sales in the "millions" for both the Kindle Flame and Kindle e-readers.

Amazon Crataegus oxycantha constitute cladding extraordinary pressure to prove that the Kindle Fire is a smash despite occasional criticism in the press. Some reviewers, including PCWorld's Melissa Perenson and the Empire State Times' David Pogue, dinged the lozenge for its lack of polish and occasionally sluggish interface. (Last week, Amazon released a Kindle Fire software update to improve public presentation.) An expert on usability, Jakob Nielsen, also knocked the Fire for having a "disappointingly poor user experience."

But those gripes haven't stopped millions of mass from buying the $199 tablet. If we assume that Amazon has sold at to the lowest degree 2 million Kindle Fires up to now, that means it has outsold the original iPad. And at least in drug user reviews and comments on tech sites, most customers appear pleased with the device. The reality is that at such a low Mary Leontyne Pric for a tablet with lots of apps and media content, consumers will be willing to look out over a few flaws — a point that Virago seems raring to turn out with its own sales figures.

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