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Originally Posted by corona
I didn't want to start another thread, 'cause there's just no shortage whatsoever of this stuff and one gets, well, kind of tired, but now the newspaper of record has the iPad killing off not just the independents, but the big-box bookstores, too:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/12/bu...e&ref=business |
I liked the fact that in the first five months of 2009, ebooks were 2.9%, in the first five months of 2010, ebooks were 8.5%, "spurred by sales of the Amazon Kindle and the new Apple iPad". As the iPad came out in April, it's not clear what this means. Did the iPad cause a massive spike in eBook demand, or is this iPad hype, when it's other eBook devices driving sales?
I went to look
here at the stats. Q1 2010 is $91M, about $30M per month. Jan-May 2010 is $147.7M, about $30M per month. So, according to these stats, the iPad had approximately nil impact on sales over those two months.
Clearly, you can't draw a curve with two points (I usually use one
), but I don't see any evidence from their cited source that that iPad was driving sales at all.