Amazon: Kindle Fire has started slowly in Germany – Golem.de

Sales of the Kindle Fire is not as expected in Germany. With its Kindle e-book readers, but Amazon is satisfied.

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Amazon’s first tablet, the Kindle Fire products are, “started comparatively more slowly” in Germany . That said Jorrit Van der Meulen, vice president of Amazon Kindle Europe, talking to Golem.de. In Germany, the Amazon tablets have been around one and a half years on the market.

A background discussion with the Kindle-Europe chief, in which he speaks relatively open in a Düsseldorf hotel rooms about the product line, is something new. Amazon wants to be open about new products in the future a little more and act not as secretive as ever. The world’s largest Internet retailer are not traditionally sales figures for its own e-book readers, tablets and other hardware known. The media rely on the estimates of analysts.

In the UK, the demand for the Kindle Fire was much better, even better than in the U.S., Meulen said. In the e-book readers, the manager is very satisfied with the sales figures, “in Tablets, we are still at the beginning,” .

Whether Amazon really prepared its own smartphone, Meulen may of course not say. How many Kindle hardware developers Amazon deals is also a secret. “But it happens a lot in the Kindle building” says Meulen. The Kindle Development Department at the headquarters of the U.S. group is an area that should not even enter any Amazon workers. Only members of the Kindle team had the smart cards for the inputs.

Amazon sells the Kindle Fire HD 7 to prime customers by 50 euros cheaper. This costs the cheapest model with 8 GB memory and commercials 79 euros. The versions with 16 GB and there is no advertising on the lock screen cheaper by 50 euros.