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"Amazon has sold more than 4m Kindle e-readers and tablets in the US this month, according to data released by the online retail giant.  American consumers snapped up over a million Kindle, Kindle Touch and new Kindle Fire tablets every week in December.  Amazon did not give a specific breakdown of sales figures for each product, but it did say that the Kindle Fire was the best-selling product on its US site in the run-up to Christmas. The Kindle Touch and Kindle took second and third place respectively.  The Kindle Fire was also the best-selling product on Amazon&amp;#039;s US mobile site and apps.  Amazon&amp;#039;s debut seven-inch screen tablet computer, launched in the US in November, is widely considered to be the strongest challenger to Apple&amp;#039;s iPad so far, largely because of its affordable price and big content library.  Analysts have estimated that Amazon will shift five million Kindle Fire tablets in 2011, marking faster sales than when the iPad launched in spring 2010.  &amp;gt; Kindle Fire named most successful Amazon product The Kindle Fire was initially criticised for the quality of its software, but Amazon issued an update just before Christmas that was claimed to enhance &amp;quot;fluidity and performance&amp;quot;, as well as improve &amp;quot;touch navigation responsiveness&amp;quot;. Currently only available in the US, the tablet is expected to roll out in other countries, including the UK, in early 2012. The standard Kindle was the biggest-selling item on the Amazon UK website this Christmas. Earlier this year, it was announced that crime and westerns author John Locke had become the first person to sell over a million self-published ebooks on Amazon. Amazon has also revealed that two self-published titles - Darcie Chan&amp;#039;s The Mill River Recluse and Chris Culver&amp;#039;s The Abbey - were two of the best-selling ebooks on its site this year. &amp;quot;We are grateful to our customers worldwide for making this the best holiday ever for Kindle,&amp;quot; said Jeff Bezos, Amazon&amp;#039;s founder and chief executive. &amp;quot;And in a huge milestone for independent publishing, we&amp;#039;d also like to congratulate Darcie Chan, the author of The Mill River Recluse, and Chris Culver, the author of The Abbey, for writing two of the best-selling Kindle books of the year.&amp;quot;  Amazon further announced that 2011 was a &amp;quot;record-breaking&amp;quot; holiday season for third-party businesses that sell on its website, including the number of sellers shifting $5,000 worth of goods increasing 44% year-on-year. The firm said that third-party sellers sold enough cameras to be used by every fan at the next ten Super Bowls, and shifted enough toys to give one to every resident of the US city of Chicago. &amp;gt; The Queen&amp;#039;s Speech comes to Amazon Kindle "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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