Third-gen Amazon Kindle sold out until September 4
updated 08:25 am EDT, Mon August 2, 2010
Amazon's new Kindle already facing strong demand
Amazon has already sold out of the first batch of the third-generation Kindle. Despite being on sale for just five days since the unveiling, both the 3G and Wi-Fi versions are listed as "temporarily sold out" and could ship as late as September 4 for new orders. The larger DX remains in stock.
The company has routinely guarded the number of Kindles it sells as a competitive secret, but it has admitted that it saw a large spike in sales after it dropped the price of the Kindle to $189 at the end of the second generation model's life. Amazon is likely to have seen further new sales with the third-generation model.
Amazon has already sold "millions" of readers but is believed to be in a race with Apple to hold on to its book share. Although it produces an iPad app and is focused more on its store, the presence of the iBookstore as a readily available (though not pre-installed) option could lead customers to drop not only the Kindle hardware but its bookstore as well.
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Joined: Nov 2008
Those thousand Kindles sure
didn't last very long. Just joking. At that price, Amazon could probably move all the Kindles they could get their hands on. The Kindle should easily become a terrific mainstream reading device.
These shortages for tablet devices is becoming worrisome. China should be able to produce these things in huge quantities but it certainly doesn't appear to be happening.