# Amazon: Cheap Kindles selling like wildfire, digital sales now more than paper - Host: [9to5mac.com](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/9to5mac.com/) - Saved: July 20, 2010 (2010-07-20T05:26:09Z) - Record: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/5189bc9aa5ff/ - JSON: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/5189bc9aa5ff.json ## From the page (probably an excerpt, not Jamie's words) Weve reached a tipping point with the new price of Kindlethe growth rate of Kindle device unit sales has tripled since we lowered the price from $259 to $189, said Jeff Bezos, Founder and CEO of Amazon.com. In addition, even while our hardcover sales continue to grow, the Kindle format has now overtaken the hardcover format. Amazon.com customers now purchase more Kindle books than hardcover booksastonishing when you consider that weve been selling hardcover books for 15 years, and Kindle books for 33 months. ## Facts - Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/) ## Same host - [MobileMe: Much improved Calendar open now for beta testing](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/fc68905f8368/) (9to5mac.com, July 7, 2010) - [HBO coming to iPad in 6 months](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/1889bf64c394/) (9to5mac.com, August 20, 2010) - [Google is Evil -Consumer Watchdog](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/9c85b2695777/) (9to5mac.com, September 3, 2010) - [Keep your Mac notebook battery in good shape](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/4a6e8a11a020/) (9to5mac.com, September 15, 2010) - [MacSpeech gets upgraded to Dragon Dictate 2](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/7428d86a54fd/) (9to5mac.com, September 20, 2010) ## Saved the same week - [Adventures in Capitalism: Will Angel Crash And VC Have Its Revenge?](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/230f714d01f5/) (chrisyeh.blogspot.com, July 19, 2010) - [Death and Facebook, revisited](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/da72981c38e3/) (scripting.com, July 19, 2010) - [Kindle Device Unit Sales Accelerate Each Month in Second Quarter ... (Amazon.com)](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/c7c30a0fa8ec/) (techmeme.com, July 19, 2010) - [Put Your Cognitive Surplus to Good Use](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/91d579cf3f29/) (lifehacker.com, July 20, 2010) - [Twilio Open Sources Stashboard, the Status Dashboard](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/b2e474fe8acc/) (twilio.com, July 20, 2010) ## Elsewhere - Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://9to5mac.com/2010/07/19/amazon-cheap-kindles-selling-like-wildfire-digital-sales-now-more-than-paper/