After Apple unveiled its iPad and iBookstore, Amazon announced its fourth quarter interest this week, with sales increasing 42 percent and Kindle e-book sales accounting in support of more than a third of add up paperback sales.
Amazon had $9.5 billion in sales in its fourth pecuniary quarter, finale Dec. 31 2009, well up from the $6.7 billion the online retailer motto in the fourth quarter of 2008. A sizeable driver in support of Amazon was its Kindle e-book person who reads, which head of the company Jeff Bezos has sold "millions" since it debuted merely finished two years since. No exact statistics on hardware sales were provided.
There are more than 410,000 books in the U.S. Kindle Store, plus 100 of 112 New York Times Bestsellers. The service plus offers 8,000 blogs and 130 domestic and international newspapers and magazines.
The Kindle and large-screen Kindle DX are open in finished 100 countries, and the Kindle iPhone hard work is open in Apple's App Store in finished 60 countries. E-books can be synced flanked by the Kindle person who reads, PC software, and Apple's iPhone and iPod touch a chord. Kindle software is on offer in support of the Mac and iPad, Amazon held.
The iBookstore is a part of Apple's contemporary iBooks app in support of iPad. The software skin tone a 3D virtual bookshelf displaying a user's not public collection, and allows the pay for of contemporary content from major publishers. Like the Kindle, it will offer content from the New York Times Bestsellers make a list.
Apple hopes to counter Amazon with its recently announced iPad. Sporting a 9.7-inch screen and with a opening outlay of $499, Apple's multimedia, multi-touch device was moderately inclined as an e-book and newspaper person who reads with a energetic, color screen, compared to the Kindle's black-and-white e-ink put on show.
