How Many Kindles Have Sold? Almost a Quarter Million

Through an inside source, the blog TechCrunch has a lead on the number of Kindle e-book readers that Amazon has sold: 240,000, which turns out to be a lot of money -- probably over $100 million though some estimations that I found reasonably done. Over the next year, estimates of how many more Kindle units that Amazon will sell seem to be running between about a half million and upwards of 750,000. It's hardly the whole book buying public, but this shows a readiness of many consumers for electronic book reading. That will affect publisher and, therefore, author business strategies.