Amazon: we sell more than a million Kindles per week – update

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Amazon has sales figures made public of its Kindle series. The onlinewarenhuis has more than a million units per week to sell. The Kindle Fire is the most popular: he would be attractive because of its low price.

Currently, there are more than a million Kindles a week were sold, but the demand would still rise, as claims to be the onlinewarenhuis. Therefore, it is expected that by the end of the year, with millions of Kindles are sold. The Kindle Fire is the most popular: according to Amazon this tablet is the most successful product ever on the market.

It was already suspected that the Fire it did well. So, in the first five days after the introduction approximately a quarter of a million Kindle Fires sold. The low price contributes to the popularity; Amazon asks $ 199 for its tablet, while the production costs are slightly higher. According to the expectations Amazon with its Kindle Fire in the fourth quarter of this year the second place in the tablet market.

Amazon wants to the Kindle Fire, especially the use of its own services to promote. The mobile device runs on a heavily customized version of Android and comes with Amazons services for the purchase of music, video, apps and digital books. Hackers, however, managed to get the custom rom CyanogenMod on the Kindle Fire, allowing users a standard Android version.

Update, 19:25: In this article it was mentioned that Amazon 1 million Kindle Fire copies per week to sell. That is incorrect: it is going to be 1 million Kindles per week, which is also the e-readers with e-ink screen are included.