Amazon.com 2Q sales up 41%

SEATTLE Amazon.com announced that net sales increased 41% to $6.57 billion in the second quarter, compared with $4.65 billion in second quarter 2009. Excluding the $48 million unfavorable impact from year-over-year changes in foreign exchange rates throughout the quarter, net sales would have grown 42% compared with second quarter 2009.

Net income increased 45% to $207 million in the second quarter, or 45 cents per diluted share, compared with net income of $142 million, or 32 cents per diluted share, in second quarter 2009.

“We're seeing rapid growth in Kindle, Amazon Web Services, third-party sales, and retail. We're also encouraged by what we see in mobile. In the last twelve months, customers around the world have ordered more than $1 billion of products from Amazon using a mobile device,” said Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon.com. “The leading mobile commerce device today is the smartphone, but we're excited by the potential of the new category of wireless tablet computers. Over time, tablet computers could become a meaningful additional driver for our business.”

For the third quarter, Amazon.com expects net sales to be between $6.9 billion and $7.6 billion, or to grow between 27% and 40% compared with third quarter 2009.