Source Claims 240K Kindles Sold

Naturalist writes "Exact data on (the Linux-powered) Kindle sales figures have been hard to come by. Amazon is notoriously tight-lipped about it, and although CEO Jeff Bezos did give some Kindle-related information back in July, the company has yet to break out how many readers it has sold to date. Now TechCrunch claims to have spoken to a source close to Amazon with direct knowledge of the company's sales figures. According to this unnamed source, Amazon has sold 240,000 Kindles to date, for an estimated hardware revenue between $86 million and $96 million; media sales would push the total above $100M." We've been following the Kindle since its launch nine months ago.

Re:uhhh

[Anonymous Coward]

I read it and assumed there was some sort of Three Kindles Per Child thing going on.

Re:You know its slashdot when it's..

[antek9]

That's not M as in Million, it's M as in Mousand.

Everything old is new again

[Wordplay]

Sales figures look much more exciting in roman numerals!

Re:uhhh

[bobdotorg]

No, No!

They sold 240 MegaKindles, each of which is one seventh the physical size of the Library of Congress.

Great Title

[EdIII]

When I read the 240M title I wondered where my Kindle was in the house and why I could not remember even buying it :)

Compromise on L

[EmbeddedJanitor]

240l of Kindles is approx 65 gallons.

Re:Compromise on L

[Ungrounded Lightning]

240l of Kindles is approx 65 gallons

But you can only get that if they blend.

Re:It sucks that "K" and "M" are so close together

[Larryish]

I knew who posted the story without looking.

mdawson?

Re:You know its slashdot when it's..

[Anonymous Coward]

For example, the cost of an ad buy can be given in thousands of impressions, known as CCM (cost per thousand).

Are you sure it doesn't mean Clickety-Clicks per Moron?

Re:Doesn't seem like that many

[JakeD409]

The main advantage of the Kindle over the iPhone is actually the fact that it's not a phone; do you realize how high you jump when you're sitting in a quiet place deeply into a horror novel, and right at the scariest part, the damn thing RINGS at you?!

Re:You know its slashdot when it's..

[Kyro]

Is that why the U.S. banking system went belly-up?

Re:Doesn't seem like that many

[Free the Cowards]

Welcome to Slashdot, where if you can't be the absolute best at everything, you might as well not bother at all.

Re:You know its slashdot when it's..

[Reverend528]

This audience uses K for thousand

No, we use K for 2**10, which is 1024, not 1000.

Re:You know its slashdot when it's..

[shellbeach]

That's not M as in Million, it's M as in Mousand.

Yeah, they should have used K as in Kousand ...

Re:You know its slashdot when it's..

[Jellybob]

And the of course there's the Bakers Kilobyte [xkcd.com].