Kindle Fire Set to Outsell iPad at Launch

Six weeks before it officially goes on sale, Amazon’s $199 Kindle Fire is shaping up to be the biggest tablet launch ever, assuming one chooses to consider the Kindle Fir a tablet like the Apple iPad (some of us do not).

Orders for Amazon’s Android-based tablet are racking up at an average rate of over 2,000 units per hour, or over 50,000 per day.

In the five days since Amazon put the Kindle Fire up on their official site, over 250,000 tablets have been preordered. If this level of consumer demand for the Kindle Fire continues, Amazon will have 2.5 million preorders for the device before it officially goes on sale on November 15th.

Those numbers make the Kindle Fire’s launch likely to be the biggest tablet launch in history, many would argue, beating both the iPad and iPad 2 in first month sales.

Amazon Kindle Fire On Track To Outsell iPad