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If the statistics are correct the thing that stands out to me is the large gap between Amazon's ebook market penetration (29.3% of Amazon books sold) vs the industry (6%). It just shows the massive delta between trying to make the ebook market successful and trying to fight it.
Writing about point in time statistics without growth and decline percentages is pointless and I'm disappointed with the MIT article. Amazon reached that market penetration within 3 years despite fighting the publishing industry. From what I've observed they've done this by pricing the ebook a couple bucks cheaper then the cheapest paper edition. I haven't seen them deep discounting ebooks beyond what they're already deep discounting paper books.
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