Amazon claims biggest Kindle sales day ever, refuses to disclose actual unit sales data

“In a press release issued on Tuesday, Amazon boasted that Cyber Monday 2012 was the ‘biggest day ever for Kindle sales worldwide.’ Sales were boosted in particular by a $129 price for the Kindle Fire,” AppleInsider reports.

“Amazon has repeatedly bragged about sales of the Kindle lineup, and even claimed in August that the Kindle Fire accounted for 22 percent of the U.S. tablet market,” AppleInsider reports. “But Amazon has failed to publicly state how many units it has sold of any device in its Kindle lineup, which includes e-ink readers and touchscreen tablets with color LCD displays.”

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MacDailyNews Take: Amazon on Kindle. Lots of talk, no substance. As usual.

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