Were earlier estimates of Kindle sales a bunch of unfounded hype? Silicon Valley Insider is reporting that Amazon spokespeople are...distancing themselves from the high estimates that leading bloggers (and me) reported a couple of weeks ago. Here's an excerpt from a Seattle Post Intelligencer story they cited in their story:
Amazon officials gave McAdams Wright Ragen analysts the impression that high-end estimates on Kindle sales reported by TechCrunch and a Citigroup analyst are not reasonable.
Amazon managers "told us that the Kindle is definitely selling very well, but they also said the analysts and reporters giving out these extremely high estimates 'did not run them by company,'" Bueneman wrote.
To my knowledge, Amazon has NEVER released sales figures for the device. Why that is is anyone's guess. As a public company it is unlikely that they would consciously leak such info -- the initiative is important enough that IF they release the data, they need to do so publicly and openly.
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