No Kindle Sales Numbers!

Amazon is still not saying what the Kindle sales numbers are.


From Shelf Awareness for last Thursday:

Quarterly Results: Amazon Sales and Earnings Jump


Sales in the first quarter ended March 31, net sales at Amazon.com rose
37% to $4.13 billion, and net income rose 30% to $143 million. The
company attributed the gains to low prices, improved inventory and
increased affiliate sales.

Among highlights:

* Amazon continued to be mum about Kindle unit sales, saying only that
"Kindle selection continues to grow--with more than 115,000 titles now
available, up from 90,000 at launch."
* The company launched Amazon TextBuyIt
<http://news.shelf-awareness.com/ct.jsp?uz2958933Biz6712235>, a
service that lets customers use text messages to find and buy products
sold on Amazon, allowing customers to shop, compare prices and buy from
any mobile device.
* Sales at Amazon's U.S. and Canadian sites were $2.13 billion, up 31%
from the same period a year earlier.
* International sales--at Amazon's U.K., German, Japanese, French and
Chinese sites--were $2.01 billion, up 44% from first quarter 2007, and
increased to 49% of worldwide net sales compared with 46% a year ago.
Excluding the effect of the weak dollar, international sales grew 31%.
* Sales of what Amazon calls "worldwide media"--which includes books,
music and movies--grew 28% to $2.54 billion, slightly more than half of
all sales.

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