Amazon has reported that sales of the Amazon Kindle range of devices has tripled over the holiday season. Although Amazon do not report on specifics such as the amount of devices sold, they do comment that sales went extremely well.

“We are grateful to the millions of customers who purchased the Kindle Fire and Kindle e-reader devices this holiday season, making Kindle our bestselling product across both the U.S. and Europe,” said Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon.com. “Our millions of third-party sellers had a tremendous holiday season with 65% unit growth and now represent 36% of total units sold.”

Although Amazon had strong sales of the device, the main money is made from the content sold on those devices. Amazon works to very tight margins to keep the devices cheap and then makes up for it from the books, movies and other content that users buy. Some Kindles are also support by ads which also makes those a little cheaper to buy.

Rather than re-quote all the numbers from the earnings reported, take a look at TFTS that has posted a summary of the numbers.

We are unsure of the future of the Amazon Kindle Fire although rumours hint at a new version launching soon, perhaps with a same sized screen or possibly one closer to the size of the iPad. Amazon appears to have done well with the smaller 7 inch screen approach so they might continue along with what works rather than trying something they are unsure of.