Predictions for the Kindle ’s death at the hired man of the iPad appear to have been premature as Amazon on Monday report substantial growth in sales of its popular tocopherol - reader afterdropping the price to $ 189 .
“ We ’ve attain a tipping point with the new price of Kindle — the emergence charge per unit of Kindle machine unit sales has tripled since we lour the price from $ 259 to $ 189 , ” said Jeff Bezos , laminitis and CEO of Amazon.com , in a statement .
The company said millions of people are already reading e - books on Kindles , but it did not name an accurate bit of Kindles sell .
Apple last month said it had alreadysold 3 million iPads .
meditation on whether the iPad would sound off Kindle off the market started after Apple announced its first 1 million iPads sold , in just 28 Day . At the time , Apple also said that over 1.5 million east - books had already been downloaded from the young iBookstore . The hefty intensity of downloads prompted forecasts that Amazon.com ’s e - record book sales would take a bang .
Amazon on Monday said its sales of Kindle books have catch hardback book sales .
The figure of Kindle book ( einsteinium - books ) sell by Amazon.com has outpaced the routine of hardback books 143 to 100 over the retiring three months , the company said , and it has sold three times as many Kindle books in the first one-half of this year as compared to the first half of last year .
The U.S. Kindle Store has more than 630,000 book for sales event and another 1.8 million free out - of - copyright e - Koran .
The company excluded the number of barren Kindle Holy Writ from the other figures .
Finally , the $ 189 Kindle weighs 10.2 snow leopard , compared to the depleted monetary value iPad , $ 499 , which weigh 24 ounces .
