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Originally Posted by Dahak
If you want the sales figures to be more realistic, to have any meaning, you should also qualify that by also presenting the values only on recently published books... say, within the last few years. Doing so for books that have been published since the introduction of the Kindle would actually be the best idea - it would strip away most of the freebie and public domain texts and also show how the new format fares with its dramatic discounts versus the hardcover paper version.
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The public domain ones are removed unless there is also a related paper version. One of the big sellers on the Kindle have been backlists (of a series or an author), and these may be contributing to the 35% but I don't see this as misleading. This is in part an effect that is often seen when the media type shifts (people re-purchase old favorites), which it has not done in the book industry since forever.