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Originally Posted by JSWolf
The numbers are bogus. Amazon is not releasing numbers. So there is no way to know what's actually correct. Sony, Kobo, Independents adding up to only 10% is too low a number to be believed. I'm sorry, but I do not believe articles like that.
When you take into account B&N, Sony, Kobo, and other Readers (no tablets), I would think (IMHO) that they would total to more then 30% (in just the US but add in Canada and the Amazon numbers are most likely lower).
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The B&N numbers from 2010 were part of a conference call. If they are bogus, the SEC would very much like to hear about it.
The point isn't the numbers per-se, but rather the apologists' repeated attempt to portray Apple as having taken market share (from Amazon, instead of the epub crowd) through conspiracy as a *good* thing.
They've got Amazon on the brain and willfully ignore all the evidence that Amazon is the *only* player (besides Apple) that *wasn't* hurt by the conspiracy.
Consumers buying the agency titles were ripped off to the tune of 30-50%, authors got lower royalties, and the publishers have the legal fees and five years of federal oversight over their heads; no amount of spin and FUD is making that into a good thing for *anybody*.