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#1 and #4 best-selling Kindle books released in 2011 published
independently by authors using Kindle Direct Publishing"
“We are grateful to our customers worldwide for making this the best holiday ever for Kindle,” said
More Kindle holiday facts:
- Throughout December, customers purchased well over 1 million Kindle devices per week.
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The new Kindle family held the top three spots on the
Amazon.com best seller charts – #1: Kindle Fire, #2: Kindle Touch, #3: Kindle. -
Kindle Fire is the #1 best-selling, most gifted, and most wished for
product across the millions of items available on
Amazon.com since its introduction 13 weeks ago. - Kindle is also the best-selling product on Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.de, Amazon.fr, Amazon.es and Amazon.it this holiday season.
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Gifting of Kindle books was up 175 percent between this Black Friday
and
Christmas Day compared to the same period in 2010. -
Christmas Day was the biggest day ever for Kindle book downloads. - Kindle Fire is the best-selling product on Amazon.com’s mobile website and across all of Amazon.com’s mobile applications.
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December’s #1 best-selling
Kindle Direct Publishing book “Wife by Wednesday” was also the #5 overall best-selling Kindle book in December and has appeared on both theUSA Today andWall Street Journal best seller lists. AuthorCatherine Bybee was formerly an emergency room registered nurse, and has now left her job to focus on writing full-time. -
In 2011, KDP and CreateSpace author CJ Lyons reached #2 on the
Amazon best seller list, #2 on the New York Times best seller list, and #4 on the USA Today best seller list. As a former pediatric ER doctor, CJ has lived the life she writes about in her cutting edge suspense novels, and she quit her job in medicine after 17 years to pursue her dream of becoming a full-time novelist. Her latest work includes “Face to Face” and “Hot Water.”
