Amazon Reports In There are all manner of ways of presenting and spinning Amazon’s fourth quarter results, but we’ll start by focusing on the things that might be of the most interest to the book publishing world. Sales for the quarter reached $2.54 billion, up 31 percent overall (including an $85 million “benefit” from exchange rates). North American media sales, the segment that includes books, grew 18 percent, to $885 million for the quarter, and $2.589 billion for the full year (up 14 percent) — making it Amazon’s slowest-growing segment. The company overall hit sales of $6.92 billion for the […]
