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Dec 19 – Dec 25, 2011 Edition Kindle Fire Ranks Tops in Most Gifted Holiday Products
SEATTLE/ AUTHORLINK NEWS/VIA BUSINESS WIRE–December. 19, 2011Amazon.com announced late last week that Kindle devices remain the hottest products this holiday season for the third week in a row, customers are purchasing well over 1 million Kindle devices per week, and Kindle Fire remains the #1 bestselling, most gifted, and most wished for product across the millions of items available on Amazon.com since its introduction 11 weeks ago.
Kindle Fire is the most successful product weve ever launched its the bestselling product across all of Amazon for 11 straight weeks, weve already sold millions of units, and were building millions more to meet the high demand. In fact, demand is accelerating Kindle Fire sales increased week over week for each of the past three weeks. People are buying Kindle Fire because it’s a simple, fully-integrated service that makes it easy to do the things they love watch movies, read books and magazines, listen to music, download apps, play games, and surf the web, said Dave Limp, Vice President, Amazon Kindle. Our family of Kindle e-ink readers are close behind Kindle Fire on the Amazon.com bestseller list. Customers continue to report preferring their Kindle e-reader for long-form reading, and in fact weve seen many customers buy two Kindles both a Kindle Fire and a Kindle or Kindle Touch this holiday season.
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