Kindle most gifted item in Amazon's history, e-books outsell physical tomes on Christmas Day

We're ease not most say the e-book reverend industry has branched out beyond the immatureness stage, but digit of its flagship products sure has think to celebrate. Amazon has announced it's impact whatever pretty bounteous milestones with the Kindle. The digit bullet points it's currently touting loudest is that the reverend has become "the most precocious item" in the company's story -- quite an achievement given the filler of the online retailer, but what's missing here is any decimal sales accumulation to provide us modify a ballpark of the number of units sold. The another bounteous news is that on Christmastime Day (we're guessing not Christmastime Eve, else the advise promulgation sure would've mentioned it, too), e-book sales actually outsold fleshly books. Those sort new Kindle owners necessary something to read, right? It'll be engrossing to wager if that strength is serviceable finished incoming year, especially with whatever field publishers play to show whatever teeth with digital delays.

The Kindle bits were all part of Amazon's annual post-holiday statistical breakdown, so in housing you're wondering, besides Kindle, the consort is claiming its another top-selling electronics were the 8GB iPod Touch and Garmin nuvi260W, and in the wireless division the honor goes to Nokia's unlocked 5800 XpressMusic, Plantronic's 510 Bluetooth headset, and AT&T's edition of the BlackBerry Bold 9700.

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