Kindle on Fire Through the Holidays

Even with its flaws (which aren't many), it's a great device, especially for Amazon.com creatures like me.

Without any sales numbers these stats are mostly meaningless. I am with Jago that the four million units across three products isn't jaw dropping. Knowing that the fire is the best seller means they sold between 1.36 million to upwards of 3 million fire's in one month which is a pretty big range that Amazon is remaining quite on. If this were Apple Paul would be accusing them of remaining quite on the breakdown to cover up for a lower number, but expecting Paul to be honest/consistent in his rants is asking way to much. Having the number 1 selling spot is meaningless since Amazon is largely the single selling source for all of these products as opposed to everything else on Amazon which is sold by a large number of retailers. Having the biggest day for books and a 175% increase don't mean much unless you know what the previous best selling day was or what the increase was from. Going from 4 to 11 is 175% increase but not really compelling. The only thing I can gather from this is Paul really, really, really wants the Kindle line to be a success and will see it as one even with a lack of meaningful data.