images.jpgFrom the press release just issued. According to the release Kindles are shipping today, 2 days ahead of the announced release date.

From the release:

Amazon.com today announced that more new generation Kindles were ordered in the first four weeks of availability than in the same timeframe following any other Kindle launch, making the new Kindles the fastest-selling ever. In addition, in the four weeks since the introduction of the new Kindle and Kindle 3G, customers ordered more Kindles on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk combined than any other product, continuing Kindle’s over two-year run as the bestselling product across all the products sold on Amazon.com. The new Kindles started shipping to customers today–two days earlier than previously announced. …

Also in the four weeks since their introduction:

* Kindle and Kindle 3G are the most gifted and most wished for products on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk combined.
* Customers in 125 countries on six continents from Austria to Zimbabwe have already placed orders for the new generation Kindles. Some of the most remote shipments will be sent as far away as Mongolia and the Northern Mariana Islands.
* Customers are already ordering books to read on their new Kindles. The most popular are the books in Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy, “Star Island” by Carl Hiaasen and “The Rembrandt Affair” by Daniel Silva.

Update: my own Kindle 3 order, placed July 28, now shows “shipping soon” with the option to cancel unavailable. The same for the lighted cover I ordered.

1 COMMENT

  1. With the near release of the K3, the User’s Guide and the Quick Start Guide are now available for download.

    On the Amazon site, click HELP and enter ‘kindle documentation’ in the blue search box.

    Regards, Don

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