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Well, I hate to burst everyone's bubble, but Amazon's 148 to 100 sales figures also includes all of their FREE books as well, which are flying off the shelves. To improve the appearance of their ebook sales, they're counting every ebook download as a sale, regardless if the ebook was free, or if it actually cost something. So they're not actually selling 148 ebooks to every 100 print books, they're fudging their numbers to make themselves (and the Kindle) look a heck of a lot better than they really are. It's just marketing spin is all it is. In reality, they're probably only selling 25 paid ebooks for every 100 print books. And I bet if someone called out Amazon on this and asked them to show their true sales figures, it would show that they are in fact fudging numbers. But we all know they'd never do that, because it'd reveal how much they lie to the public.
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