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Originally Posted by leebase
I'm shocked by how low th percentage of sales to non kindle owners is. I would have thought Amazon would be selling more books on the iPad than apple does. Now it appears that would not be the case.
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Really? 20% of Amazon's Kindle DRMed e-books sales are to people who don't own Kindle hardware and you find this number "low"? That's a lot of folks reading "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" on an iPad screen showing 100 words at a time, or an Android smartphone or Blackberry showing 50 words, or hanging out in front of their PC.
A lot.
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Originally Posted by leebase
Amazon did not state if it was counting revenue or units for it's 70% market.
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I'm not sure it really matters -- percentage of revenue and percentage of units is likely going to track roughly equally among vendors. Amazon was careful to state its stats referred to paid sales. Amazon already demonstrated it was doing very well, thank you very much, with mainstream titles like 75% of all James Patterson e-book sales. It's significant that no one else has taken the bait -- including Apple -- of producing figures to show sales leadership from one angle or another.