In advance of Thursday’s second quarter earnings report, Amazon tries to drum up extra attention by releasing some “statistics” – since as always, the company will never flat-out tell the public exactly how many e-books or devices they’ve sold. This time, however, the numbers they tout actually inch a little closer to real, live, hard data. So let’s start with the data: jumping on last week’s announcement that James Patterson had sold 1.14 million e-books to date worldwide, Amazon says Kindle books account for 867,881 of those sales. (Of course, with print sales totalling more than 205 million copies, that […]