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Old 07-22-2010, 12:20 PM   #7
fjtorres
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Originally Posted by krischik View Post
Only 5% of the human population live in the USA. Dropping 5% of potential customer base where competition is fierce makes good business sense to me. It is only a tiny part of the market after all.

Martin
And that 5% buys 58% of the ebook readers sold on the planet.
http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20100720VL200.html

Still think the NorthAm market doesn't matter?

Edit: With the China market running 21.4% that leaves the rest of the world with 20%.
In other words, the NorthAmerican market is 3 times the size of all the non-chinese markets combined. Yeah, it's "only" the US.

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