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Old 08-06-2012, 04:08 PM   #16
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Would someone correct me if I am wrong but I believe that this news is approxiatly two years old. By now ebooks are probably accounting for 3/4 of all amazon book sales. I remember seeing an article by the American Bookpublisher's association saying that ebooks account for somehting like 35% of all books sold from all their member publishers. My take on this being within the next two years ebooks will acount for a majority of all books sold by all american publishers.
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Old 08-06-2012, 04:13 PM   #17
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Well, that's not what the article said, but it was wrt the U.K.

Do you have a link to the article of which you speak?
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You're wrong. Look at the date on the article.
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Old 08-06-2012, 04:21 PM   #19
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You're wrong. Look at the date on the article.
Is that addressed to me or jbcohen?
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Old 08-06-2012, 05:11 PM   #20
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Would someone correct me if I am wrong but I believe that this news is approxiatly two years old.
That was for the US. The article is talking about the UK, the OP didn't specify it in the title.
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Old 08-06-2012, 08:25 PM   #22
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Joe Smith - Had an Amazon account prior to buying a Kindle. Averaged 1 book purchase a month. After purchasing a Kindle and tying it to his account, his book purchasing habits went up to about 4 (e)books a month.
Before I got my Kindle, I averaged zero book purchases, from Amazon, a year. Now I average maybe two a year. So from the standpoint of an Amazon stockholder who likes to look on the bright side, my purchases increased by a factor of infinity!

But, from where I sit, my book purchases are rather steady.
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Old 08-06-2012, 09:03 PM   #23
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I have had 4 people who told me they had never bought anything online before receiving a kindle as a gift but they now buy ebooks from Amazon. All seem happy with the experience and are thinking that online shopping is do-able. Like the mail order from their youth but faster. Maybe good, maybe not.

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Is that addressed to me or jbcohen?
Jbcohen - we were posting at the same time .
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I definitely buy (and read) many more books than I did before. It's just so much more convenient. I get a lot of free books too, but if I want a book, I just buy it, and I always buy the e-book even if it's more than the paperback because I don't want to accumulate physical books in my house.
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Would someone correct me if I am wrong but I believe that this news is approxiatly two years old...
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You're wrong. Look at the date on the article.
And it was mentioned on the radio only yesterday, so I would guess the article is very current.
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Old 08-08-2012, 03:17 PM   #27
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This happened in the US a few years back. The confusion is that it just happened in the UK.

I suspect that BN has seen a similar trend in the US.
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Old 08-08-2012, 07:31 PM   #28
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I'm not going to take the time to look it up, but my recollection is that Amazon's US eBook sales have overtaken both hardbacks and paperbacks separately, but not combined.
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I'd like these stats separated amongst price points. I'm guessing the majority of these sales are for those cheap 0.99 books or at the lower end of the price range. It would be interesting to see how the numbers compare to those books where paper and ebooks are about the same or paper starts to be cheaper than the ebook version.
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Actually it would be interesting to see what the figures are for some specific titles, those that are available in hard back, paper back and eBook.
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