In the fourth quarter of 2011 sold Amazon are 177 percent more Kindle devices than in the same period the year before. How many Kindle Fire tablets will be sold is not known. Amazons sales increased significantly, but the cost also.
It was mainly the selling of media like e-books and dvds, as well as the popularity of the Kindle that sales of Amazon a push in the back gave. The revenue from media grew by 15 percent, and that from the sale of electronics, including the Kindle, with 48 per cent. Precise figures on the Kindle-sales provides Amazon does not, only that in the fourth quarter, the Kindle sell 177 percent higher than the year before. In november 2011, introduced Amazon’s first tablet: the Kindle Fire.
“We are the millions of customers who have the Kindle Fire and Kindle e-readers in the christmas season purchased are very grateful,” says Amazon ceo Jeff Bezos. According to him, is the Kindle Amazons best-selling product in the US and Europe. The revenue from Amazon increased by 35 percent to 17,43 billion, but profit fell 58 percent to 177 million dollars compared to a year earlier. Especially the increased costs, reduced profit, while disappointing sales of games, the floods in Thailand and the worsening economic tide would have meant that the results are less good than expected.