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I don't think that cnet article is worth the electrons it took to send it.
>Kindle sales also tripled when prices dropped from $359 to $299.
To which I say, so what?
>How much of Amazon's ebook business consists in self-published books (Amazon stocks a LOT of them)?
What does it matter? They also counted all hardbacks not just hardbacks that are also out on the Kindle. The cnet article doesn't mention that fact.
>What are the profit margins -- at $9.99 Amazon was losing money before the switch to the new agency model. It still considers ebooks loss-leaders.
What do the profit margins matter as far as the article goes? Amazon didn't make any claims about how much money they made on ebooks. That's a red herring.
>Amazon's ebook business is growing, but this may only because the entire ebook business is booming (the American Publishing Association claims overall ebook sales quadrupled last year).
Again, so what? Why is this some sort of red flag?
>What about market share? If Apple and B&N claims of 20% marketshare each are true, Amazon is likely losing marketshare.
What about it? Amazon made no claims about the market share of the Kindle. They said their ebook business was growing. Throwing around a lot of speculation and tangential questions and claims doesn't change that and it doesn't throw any red flags to me.
>Sounds to me like someone's rollin' in ebook dough.
Yes, we get it. Amazon is a bunch of evil liars and the Kindle sucks rocks.
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