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title: "Kindle Sales 12% of Amazon Sales"
description: "RyanSpoon.com: Great post on Kindle Sales Quote: Amidst all of the discussion about the iPhone 3G that hits stores tomorrow, another industry changing gadget is getting overlooked. According to Time..."
url: https://somisguided.com/2008/07/11/kindle-sales-12-of-amazon-sales/
date: 2008-07-11
modified: 2008-07-11
author: "Monique"
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# Kindle Sales 12% of Amazon Sales

(http://ryanspoon.com/blog/2008/07/10/amazon-kindle-is-a-hit-12-of-book-sales-on-amazon-doubled-since-may/)

Quote:

Amidst all of the discussion about the iPhone 3G that hits stores tomorrow, another industry changing gadget is getting overlooked. According to Time Magazine:

“On a title-by-title basis, of the 130,000 titles available on Kindle and in physical form, Kindle sales now make up over 12% of sales for those titles,. At a technology trade conference in May, CEO Jeff Bezos said that Kindle sales accounted for 6% of book titles sold for the Kindle and in print. So Amazon appears to be selling more e-books.”

Those are big numbers. 12% of sales for books that are available in print AND on the Kindle are purchased for the Kindle

(http://ryanspoon.com/blog/2008/07/10/amazon-kindle-is-a-hit-12-of-book-sales-on-amazon-doubled-since-may/)