Leaked Sales Numbers Suggest Amazon Kindle Fire On Track To Outsell iPad [Exclusive]

(3:21 pm PDT, Oct 3rd 2011)

Leaked Sales Numbers Suggest Amazon Kindle Fire On Track To Outsell iPad [Exclusive]

Six weeks before it officially goes on sale, Amazon’s $199 Kindle Fire is shaping up to be the biggest tablet launch ever… and Cult of Android has the numbers to prove it.

A verified source within the Seattle based online retail giant has provided Cult of Android with exclusive screenshots of Amazon’s internal inventory management system Alaska (Availability Lookup and SKU Aggregator).

These leaked shoots show that orders for Amazon’s Android-based tablet are racking up at an average rate of over 2,000 units per hour, or over 50,000 per day.

In the five days since Amazon put the Kindle Fire up on their official site, over 250,000 tablets have been preordered. If this level of consumer demand for the Kindle Fire continues, Amazon will have 2.5 million preorders for the device before it officially goes on sale on November 15th.

Those numbers make the Kindle Fire’s launch likely to be the biggest tablet launch in history, beating both the iPad and iPad 2 in first month sales.

The original iPad sold 300,000 units on April 3, 2010, its first day of availability. In the first month, iPad sales amounted to over a million units. By the time the iPad 2 came around in March of this year, Apple managed to rack up an estimated 2.5 million units in first month of sales.

Right now, the Kindle Fire looks like a lock to dwarf the iPad’s launch. It also seems like it might outsell the iPad 2 if this level of consumer demand continues.

Amazon’s wild breakaway success with the Kindle Fire is even more apparent when compared to companies besides Apple. For example, Motorola only managed to sell 100,000 Xoom units in its month and a half earlier this year. In addition, Research In Motion’s long anticipated BlackBerry tablet, the PlayBook, only managed to sell an estimated 250,000 units in its first month.

Even the Kindle Fire’s closest analog, the Nook Color, only shifted roughly a million units in its first two months of sales.

Of course, a preorder is not the same as a sale, and the Kindle Fire hasn’t broken any sales records yet. It’s possible that consumers could cancel their orders en masse, or demand could level off.

Even so, according to our source, Amazon is ecstatic about the Kindle Fire’s numbers so far… and for good reason.

Leaked Sales Numbers Suggest Amazon Kindle Fire On Track To Outsell iPad [Exclusive]
Leaked Sales Numbers Suggest Amazon Kindle Fire On Track To Outsell iPad [Exclusive]

The Amazon internal pre-order numbers for the Kindle Touch and Kindle Touch 3G, respectively.

Cult of Android has also secured the preorder numbers for the WiFi and 3G versions of Amazon’s other upcoming touchscreen e-reader, the Kindle Touch.

Despite selling for up to $100 less, the 6-inch Kindle Touch is being outsold by the Kindle Fire at a rate of ten to one, and has only racked up about 20,000 pre-orders to date.

The numbers for the $149 Kindle Touch 3G are even worse: only a few more than 12,000 people have ordered one so far.

Amazon has been notoriously secretive about its Kindle sales numbers, and has always refused to release them. This is the first time that verified order numbers of the Kindle family of e-reading devices has been made available to the public.

The numbers indicate a very rosy future for Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablet, although that future may have been secured at the expense of their traditional, monochrome e-ink readers. The outlook for competing Android tablets is even bleaker: at the high end, gadget makers will need to compete with Apple’s iPad juggernaut, and on the low end, the affordable Kindle tablet backed by Amazon’s huge online content empire. As for Apple, the iPad’s success seems unassailable… but how long will Cupertino ignore these kinds of sales numbers before they respond with a low-end “iPad mini” of their own?

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  • Tyler Hojberg

    This should light a fire under Apple’s butt for iPad 3!!! :D

    • http://twitter.com/daren_gray Daren_Gray

      Right.

      Because Apple is sweating Amazon’s bold move to sell their gimped tablets at a loss. I bet Steve Jobs just can’t wait to get into the sweet take-a-loss-on-every-device-sold market that Amazon and HP currently dominate.

      • http://www.facebook.com/petraholden Petra Holden

        Oh, yes. Apple would much rather bank on all their profits coming from the device sales themselves while running iTunes as a near break-even venture. Personally, I’d bet on the long-term, reliable sale of content before the fickle marketplace of the newest fad device.

      • iJesus

        Jobs won’t be waiting anything anymore. He’s out of this game for good. All that money, fame and success were ultimately meaningless and didn’t help him.

        Now that the perverse cult of Apple has lost its messiah, downfall is inevitable. That’s the problem when the whole company is built around hype of one man and his worshiping.

    • Anonymous

      Nope. Because Apple has never, and will likely not, design by what anyone else is doing. To paraphrase from Mr Jobs famous Stanford speech — they live their own lives, not the lives others want them to live. 

  • Anonymous

    Ordered 1 or I should say pre-ordered and may order another for my daughter. The so called diminished experience of a 7″ display is IMO nonsense. There are enough 7″ devices for you to kick the tires at best buy and other outlets and the size is very useful and comfortable. I found the 10″ tablet bulky and a poor substitute for a laptop or for that matter a netbook. It is no surprise to me that Amazon is going to sell a lot of these and at $200 few if any will have buyers regret.

    • Dan

      I thought the same about 7″ tablets untl I owned one… and then used a 10″ tablet. For emails, the 7″ is fine, but if you plan on doing web browsing (which is what most people use their tablets for), you will find it’s constantly crammed, especially since the Amazon Fire browser won’t allow adblocking, you’ll be fighting for space constantly. But… if you’re buying an Amazong tablet, I’m guessing you’ll use it mostly for reading.

      • Anonymous

        With Silk once you are browsing within the Amazon enterprise silo you will not be crammed with Ads, those will be at the split part browser that you will not receive. How and what ad’s Amazon will decide to push to you will evolve so fighting for the space is not a big deal. I have not seen survey data but my gut tells me that most people who own a tablet also have a laptop or desktop for serious work. For $200 the Fire is a no brainer. Its not like the $2,500 HP850 paper weight I have in my office to remind me not to buy expensive bleeding edge new toys.

        • Dan

          Sorry, I should have been more clear about which ads I’m talking about. I’m talking about the ads that are placed inside websites, not in-ap ads that we see in iOS and Android currently. Those “in browser” ads cannot be removed because Amazon is sending you the webpage. Currently, I can block ads in webOS, Android and iOS with ease. It’s like using Adblock Plus on the pc! On the 7″ fire, those ads will be a huge pain and will make web surfing a frustrating affair.

          • Anonymous

            I agree and it is a annoying on my MacBook Air as well. The smaller size has both upsides and downsides but the functionality, price and whispersync made the Fire impossible for me no resist. For $200 I do not see buyers regret and I believe this will be a big seller for Amazon. It is going to get interesting when they introduce a low priced 10″ tablet, that I have no interest in. The Apple loyalists will stay loyal.

          • Anonymous

            How are you blocking ads on iOS?

  • omaruswow

    “Amazon’s $199 Kindle Fire is shaping up to be the biggest tablet launch ever”…and the least profitable initially,
    but hey, it worked for the xBox in the long run. Kindle should do well with Amazon’s established marketplace, though I think it should be renamed the Kindle Firesale.

    • http://twitter.com/m26k9 Madu Liyanage

      Amazon is building an ecosystem around Fire. Just like Apple. Supposedly Fire costs $150 to build and I think that’s more than enough of a margin for Amazon. More Fire means more ebooks, more movie rentals, more mp3 sales.. more of everything for Amazon..

  • Anonymous

    I wonder how long it will take for the Android community to churn out some rooting procedure and flash a full build of Android onto it? If that works out then I might just get one of these.

    • rcasew

      The root for kindle fire will likely be out prior to it’s release due to developers leaks. The rooted Nook is the bomb. A rooted kindle is a nuclear weapon. For those fan bois whom say the kindle-pad comparison is apples to oranges….if we stop eating oranges the apples win (or lose depending on the context)

  • Anonymous

    Gimme a break. Anyone can “leak” any numbers they want. Two words… Photo, Shop.

    • Anonymous

      We verified our source, so no, these aren’t Photoshops.

      • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FMQU5RMDFFNSQRZAEC2CTVZO3Q Tim

        You verified it by asking Amazon to validate the numbers?  By getting another screenshot from another source that reflected the same numbers?  Verified it how?   I’d love to hear this…

  • Anonymous

    True or not, you’re not comparing the same thing. You may as well have ran a story comparing the sales figures of Nike trainers with the iPad.

    • Anonymous

      Silly of us to compare a tablet with a tablet.

      • Anonymous

        Silly of you to compare a Porsche with a Skoda

        • Steve

          I’m an apple person and even I can’t stand it when you morons refer to these electronics as “luxury.” HAHAHAHA Put the same bullshit in an aluminum case and call it a day! LUXURY!

          • Anonymous

            And the word luxury was used by?

  • Anonymous

    What? Dude it doesnt even have a camera on it! For real?
    total-privacy.no.tc

  • Drew

    It looks like your numbers for the Kindle Touch are only for the units “With Special Offers”. I can’t offer a good guess as to how many they’ve sold without the ads, but I ordered a Touch (wifi) and chose the no-ad version.

  • Anonymous

    Just wait until people realize that Amazon is planning to track all their Web activity by acting as a Web proxy via their own cloud services infrastructure.

    Facebook, Google and now Amazon – brokers of your soul.

    • Anonymous

      Apple does not need to track what you do, you can only do what they let you do.

      I am sorry if this sounded a bit brash, I just don’t buy technocults, be it Apple, Google FB etc…I too deplore the invasion of privacy nowadays, however, I think I am one of the last, when I see what people post on their FB accounts.

    • Dwayne

      The split browsing service can be disabled, removing AWS from the equation. You honestly think that your home ISP and your mobile provider can’t tell you everything you’ve done on the web at any given time?

  • Rtbarnum

    Has that source joined the millions of unemployed?

    • CWIPS

      Yes, and there may be legal proceedings afot.

      • Nobodiesbusiness

        I know the idiot that leaked this. He wasn’t a “in the know” in Seattle. He was a lowly worker drone at a call center that was tracked down in less than 10 hours after the leak. And the internal Dogs do track at Amazon. They flew a special legal team in from Seattle. They took this kid into a office and told him he was going to be made an example of, for the benefit of the company.

        So this kids life WILL be flamed because he leaked five days work of sales.

        • CWIPS

          They seemed pretty shaken up about it. The Alaska tool has been disabled, to start with. I doubt we’ve heard the last of it.

          • Nobodiesbusiness

            You have no idea…you know how stuff runs downhill, and if your not in Seattle your at the bottom

          • CWIPS

            And that’s a lot of people at the bottom…

  • Provenzano

    Steve Jobs is soiling his pants.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_IFE6Q4RYA2AUTUDWJG7C6N4WF4 Monkee Do

    Here’s why the Kindle Fire is more threatening to the iPad than just sales figures.

    http://theponderingprimate.blogspot.com/2011/09/amazon-versus-applewhich-offers-greater.html

  • http://technbiz.blogspot.com paramendra

    I predicted this. Finally The iPad Has Competition http://bit.ly/oybzax

  • http://twitter.com/jeremychang Jeremy

    Amazon is going after a completely *different* market. Saying the Fire will ‘kill’ the iPad is effectively saying consumer demand for a premium device will drop due to a lower-end device being introduced.

    Correct me if I’m wrong but I think there will ALWAYS be a demand for premium products. And as a result, there will always be a market for Apple products. Amazon is tapping into a different market with the Fire. And the iPad? It’s going no where but home with more satisfied customers.

    • Hereticalrants

      To me, the iPad is a lower end device, compared to things that are actually useful to me (like the Asus eee slate)

    • Damon

      I have purchased a Kindle 1 , Kindle 2, and two Kindle 3′s. By giving the old ones to family members five of them share one Amazon acct thus dispersing the cost of my families ebook library. Making reading much cheaper. I plan on selling my 4thgen Ipod Touch when I get my new Kindle Fire while still keeping my Kindle 3. The best things about the Eink display makes that type of device closer to a book replacement for me. The Fire will be mainly a media device for me, just like any Android tablet would be. If the Fire outsells other tablets it is because of the Amazon acct integration and its price point. I use Amazon exclusively for shopping and media not unlike some MAC fanatics are about their Mac OS and iTunes. It

    • Anonymous

      Agreed. It does seem like Amazon is going for the folks that aren’t going to buy the iPad because it is too much tablet for them. The folks that just want an ebook reader and an ‘iPod’ and really not much else. Which is what the Fire basically is. 

      So the Fire could sell like mad but the iPad won’t feel a thing. Because it is two different audiences. 

  • Anonymous

    oh good – I will be able to get my Samsung 10.1 at $200! When Amazon drops the other shoe for a 10″ tab at $250, everyone else besides Apple will be eating inventory or giving it away.

  • Dan

    It’s almost comical to read these articles about the Amazon Fire being an “ipad killer”. Killer in lack of features? Oh no, we’re talking sales… but in the world of sales, you don’t compare the sales volume of $10 Casio watches to $2000 Swiss timepieces. Try to sell an Amazon Fire at $600 and see who dies – Apple isn’t worried about this low-end tablet market, so stop making it sound like it’s important.

    • plusos

      fanboy

    • Thedutchprince

      And I find it hysterical you reason by price tags and find it logical to use extreme comparisons as a argumental basis.

      In the world of markets, products are compared by features, function, aesthetics and ergonomics. In this the Amazon Fire shapes up to the Ipad, and thus compares and can be qualified as a substitute.

      Price is a bonus to all those who won’t easily part with their money.

      If Apple is not worried, their brand name will soon not sound important in the world of tablets.

      • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FMQU5RMDFFNSQRZAEC2CTVZO3Q Tim

        It’s not about markets, silly, it’s about margins.  Amazon loses money on each unit sold only to make it up on the back end in the form of increased sales from its stores.  Apple makes considerable margin up-front and continues to maintain a higher margin into the marketplace ecosystem.

        It’s like comparing Burberry to WalMart.

      • Anonymous

        Qualified as a substitute? What a joke. And those who won’t easily part with their money are clearly being duped then. It’s a dumb article when the Fire costs less than half that of an iPad and does less than half that of an iPad. It’s also half the size in display area. No thanks.

    • Anonymous

      I would imagine that one also doesn’t look at pre-orders that could be cancelled etc. But rather real sales numbers, adjusted for returns. 

  • Whitey

    I hope they whoop Apples A**!!!! Amazon Rocks!!!

    • http://chris.pirillo.com/ Chris Pirillo

      You obviously did not read the entire article.

  • Anonymous

    Such a farce. The best way to tell how good a device is and whether it is likely to eat into the market share of the concentration camp manufactured gear is to count the number of specious lawsuits brought against the device by the Cupertino SS.
    My Samsung 10.1 (which I might add cost me $200 less than the Galaxy S idrone killer) is the sweetest handheld I’ve ever owned – by far.
    I swore off buying new releases after a tiresome experience with an early model motorola 858 called the droid in the US and the milestone everywhere else, but when the news of cupertino’s stand-over tactics hit I decided to back my instincts. The galaxy S was everything the 858 wasn’t so I reasoned a Samsung pad would likely be great quality also. It was. Keep up the lawsuits drongos; it makes it very easy to work out what to buy, without having to wade through 157 highly subjective online reviews.

  • http://twitter.com/HirePulseMason Mason Yarrick

    This will be awesome if for no other reason than it will bring tablets to a wider audience. Even if it doesn’t impact on the number of iPads sold, effectively doubling the number of tablet users out there can only be a good thing. Hopefully it’ll also drive more developers to the Android tablet platform too.

  • Wangtough

    I’m pretty excited about this – I have a rooted out Nook Color that I love, and this thing is going to monkey stomp it. This is coming from a guy that loves Apple computers, and doesn’t just spew verbal diarrhea about the product out of insecurity. I can’t justify spending $500 for a little jerk-off/facebook/mindless bullshit machine.

  • http://twitter.com/meetsonya Sonya

    Wow.. amazing find! The sales will probably drop after it ships then pick up again right before Christmas. Ah… should I get one for my bf?

    http://forums.kindlefirefans.com/

  • Alecio_faria

    Sounds like blá, blá blá …

  • Anonymous

    I’d buy it just to make a statement for the fanboys with their overhyped, flash deficient ipad

    • Anonymous

      I was given an iPad to use for work and the lack of Flash has proven to be moot. 

    • $390AShareIsTrulyExciting!}:-D

      The Fire is being over-hyped when it’s being called a success before it gets into the hands of consumers.  As for running Flash, that’s Amazon’s problem not Apple’s.  I shudder to think how poorly Flash will likely run in the Kindle’s 512 MB of RAM.

  • Anonymous

    The Fire is not a f@#%ing Android tablet, morons. It’s an Android media device. Period. Remember all those features about Android you love so much, like the ability to root the device and customize the hell out of it? Yeah, not on the Fire. In fact, the Fire appears to be even more proprietary than the iPad. The Fire is a Kindle for books, movies, and music, and that’s it. If you want a real tablet, look at the Galaxy Tab or the next HTC Flyer, ’cause this is not the device you think it is.

  • Bill

    How does one equate 250,000 to 2.5 MILLION and then say “outselling?” This assumes forward trajectory that isn’t supported by this single data point.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/NQPFHHWQINRKGUAPTEZKH5B7RE mrnebu

    ahahah hope you can provide your source a new job!

  • Anonymous

    Keep showing the same spreadsheet – Baghdad Bob!!

  • http://twitter.com/TheMacAdvocate Jeremiah

    “In the five days since Amazon put the Kindle Fire up on their official site, over 250,000 tablets have been preordered. If this level of consumer demand for the Kindle Fire continues, Amazon will have 2.5 million preorders for the device before it officially goes on sale on November 15th.”

    Wow – did you pull any muscles extending the average of the first five days of a pre-order over every subsequent day until the launch? Because it seems like that level of manipulation would require a LOT of stretching beforehand. Say hello to GIzmodo at lunch.

  • curtis jackson

    End of the day a POS will always be a POS, it doesn’t matter what company makes it.
    Apple will destroy Google, and they will have to recode Android, and recall all smartphones/tablets, as such Google stock will tank, and we’ll be in a better place in the world. Steve Jobs will see to it, even from the grave.

  • MacGoo

    Anyone else pretty weirded out to have “Cult of Android” suddenly pop up in their RSS stream for Cult of Mac?

    • Anonymous

      Yep. Especially when it is a story that was first posted on Cult of Mac 3 weeks ago. Only change is that our initial comments aren’t here. 

  • Imak92

    Lol yah sure that ” leak ” is real number
    SUUURRREEEEE

  • Anonymous

    of course it was leaked. I do think this will be a good tablet. Now weather it affects iPads remains to be seen. I would have to have a similar user experience and be as spot on as the iPad to do that. crashing, slow processing, bad graphics or low battery life, any of this would demote this to a indoor only reader.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000728233984 Kristian Iskanius

    Lets see the return rate first and the build quality ie. how many goes back to repair. Amazon makes loses with every unit that they sell so that will be interesting to see as well.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=775155491 Marcos Duran

    How is this surprising? Kindle family is very popular. I have one and buy every version that comes out while having the iPad. Enjoy both devices in different situations. Also there is the famous price/demand ratio… cheaper always sells more, quality being similar and the Kindle Fire seems like a thoughtfully designed device. However, selling stuff is not only about units, it is also about profits and in that sense Amazon sells at a loss. It’s even easier to have a winner when profits are not important. Apple has an inverse strategy. They make money on the hardware and make less money on content… but they are still making money on both sides. Which do you think is sustainable?

  • Alan Christensen

    I’m one of those numbers. I haven’t bought an iPad because of the cost-benefit to me personally. I don’t need a fabulous tablet that can do a zillion things. I just need it to do three or four things. I think there are a LOT of others out there who think the same way.

  • Anonymous

    Sure.. economics 101..  When price goes down, quantity demanded goes up.  So the sales numbers may be more.  But revenue numbers? And more importantly profit margin?  I want to see those numbers.  They won’t show those you know why?  Because Amazon sells their tablets at a loss.  Thats right: a ‘LOSS’.  They want to make their money as a content provider.  Conversely, Apple has (until relatively recently) used content providing to influence hardware sales (where they make most of their money).

    I think both of these strategies can and are working… However, I wouldn’t start measuring the success of Android tablets (or sales numbers) from a device that climbs mountains to strip everything Android from it.  Amazon has its own ‘walled garden’ and Android is its free fertilizer.  

  • $390AShareIsTrulyExciting!}:-D

    I suppose it’s possible since it only cost $199 vs the iPad’s $499 base price.  It’s like when the media said the Kinect was outselling the iPad despite the Kinect costing much less.  It’s like bragging that Kia is outselling Porsche despite the price points being so different.  The only problem with that is where Apple was turning a large profit from every device sold, Amazon will be losing money on every device sold based on hardware costs.  If Amazon can sell enough content to make up for those hardware costs, then that’s another story completely.  Wall Street must be betting Amazon will.

    It’s OK if the media and Wall Street want to make a big deal out of it.  It will be somewhat of an accomplishment if Amazon pulls it off considering the Fire is a very basic 7″ tablet, but it’s not the greatest financial model ever seen. Selling products at a loss is nothing to celebrate when it comes to business.  Wall Street will be pleased because those Amazon investors don’t seem to care as long as Amazon just sells lots of stuff and continues to grow.  And beating Apple at anything is reason enough for Wall Street to rejoice.

    What gets me is that Wall Street bet on the iPad to be a failure, but without hesitation WS is betting the Kindle Fire will be a success.  The critics hated the fact that the iPad was locked to Apple’s content ecosystem, yet they love the fact that the Fire is locked to Amazon’s content ecosystem.  It’s like everything the critics hated about the iPad (which is a very well designed product), they somehow love about the Kindle Fire.  I find that very odd.  I guess it just an anti-Apple thing with Wall Street.

  • Anonymous

    Here’s to the cheapos, the parents that always buy the wrong thing, the sucker that’s born every minute, January’s doorstop. Those we’ll call Kindle Fire buyers. For they do not care about value, or the end user experience. All they see is a price tag.

    Here’s to the cheapos, who get what they pay for.

    • Anonymous

      And here’s to the Apple iFanboys (me) who truly get what they pay for! 

  • Anonymous

    in other news…analysts predict that amazon fire will be the fastest to hit the second-hand eBay market in history. all thanks to the underdeveloped and fragmented android platform. 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FMQU5RMDFFNSQRZAEC2CTVZO3Q Tim

    From the BBC:

    “Profits at the online retailer Amazon have dropped 73% after the company invested heavily in the Kindle tablet computer.”

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FMQU5RMDFFNSQRZAEC2CTVZO3Q Tim

    LOL, this site is so ghetto.  None of the other links work nor do any of the ones at the bottom of pages.  LOL

    G-H-E-T-T-O

  • Anonymous

    Dude, Apple doesn’t compete in this “LOW END” segment.  It’s like BMW, Porsche, or, Audi selling the budget sub $15,000 car.  Amazon can keep the segment like the CHEAP PC segment. Duh.

  • Anonymous

    Oh yeah,  I forgot the BUY ONE GET ONE FREE deal too.  Give it away since it’s the only way to get the product out there like the ‘droid.

  • Alfonso

    Amazon and Google are loosing money when I buy a Kindle, Apple makes $200 if I buy a iPad. Is it me or it very simple to understand what a “good value” is?

    • Bla

       How’s Google loosing money when you buy a Kindle?

  • smart

    When this Apple fad dies out people will realize they’ve were suckers. Pay $300 more for something that will be obsolite in two years (or less) – where’s the sense in that? Oh yea, it’s a fad, it doesn’t have to make sense.

  • http://onereviewgadget.blogspot.com/ Gadget | Telephone Mobile

    Apple would much rather bank on all their profits coming from the device
    sales themselves while running iTunes as a near break-even venture.

  • Mardan

    I bought this device yesterday for my 11 year old daughter and she loves it. She can read all her books, play game, browse web and access website for her school that use flash. it is simple to use, reliable and has a great screen resolution To me that is the test if a product is going to be successful in having high volume sales.  She has an iPad2 and thought she would prefer that one and let me keep the Kindle Fire. No chance.

    It is these teenage kids that will be asking their parents for Christmas gift and from the look of it, am sure many of them will ask their parents for an Amazon Kindle fire.

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