Amazon and its partners reached no less than 95k pre-orders for last week’s hot announcement, the Kindle Fire tablet. The info comes from a digital marketing firm and this effort is all the more impressive, if compared to the 300k first gen iPads sold on the first day by Apple.
Keep in mind that the Kindle tablet will be shipping on November 15, so that’s a long way to go till then. The slate sells for $199, so it’s bound to fly off the shelves in no time. Right now Amazon itself, as well as Best Buy and other partners are taking pre orders for the product ahead of what looks like a busy holiday season.
In case you’re wondering how people actually get hold of these figures, know that eDataSource estimated the amount of preordered devices by tracking email purchase receipts in 800k inboxes. With Kindle Fire running Android and being predicted to sell 15 million units by 2013’s end, things are looking up for both Google and Amazon. In the meantime other 7 inch tablets like the HTC Flyer are feeling the heat and taking down the price a notch…
