What university do you go to? approved pharmacy Globally, Amazon’s shipments in the April-June quarter were down 59 percent from a year earlier at 470,000, NPD said. That compared with 14.6 million for Apple’s iPad, down 17 percent from a year ago, and 10.8 million for Samsung’s Galaxy line, which is more than six times more than a year earlier. Amazon sells most of its Kindles around the Christmas holidays, Baker said.