Amazon will sell its Kindle tablet in 170 countries - State of Minas

NEW YORK – The retail giant Amazon announced on Thursday that it is expanding sales of its Kindle tablets to more than 170 countries and its app store, the Appstore, to nearly 200.

“The Kindle Fire HD is the object number one, the most sold worldwide by Amazon since its launch and we are happy that today is available to more customers worldwide,” said Dave Limp, vice president of Amazon Kindle .

Amazon says the Kindle Fire, which price to market the United States is $ 159, will be sold from June 13 in most countries. Until now it was only sold in Britain, Germany, France, Spain and Japan

He also said that the Amazon Appstore – its application store – is now available in 200 countries, offering games, books and other content. Amazon sells Kindle applications, but also for personal computers and telephones and other devices that use the Android operating system.

The Appstore was available until now, besides the United States, Britain, France, Italy, Spain, China and Japan, and its launch was planned in Brazil.

Amazon competes with Apple and Google in the tablet market for online content and applications.

Despite not to publish sales data, expert advice sector IDC says that Amazon is the fourth biggest seller in the tablet market, despite its so far limited distribution. According to his estimates, has sold 1.8 million units in the first quarter of the year.