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Originally Posted by elcreative
Even more interesting when you look a bit further than that single article by an eBook evangelist... every other source I looked at, shows eBook sales of around 4 million (3.82 to be more precise) so far in 2010. Now someones figures must be a bit distorted as I somehow doubt sales with an average book price of $3000 (do the math).
Most analysts say the market is growing but, like all other countries, the eReader price needs to drop a little further to fuel serious growth.
Now if he's talking about hardware then again that isn't China's publishing industry but hardware business... and much of the manufactured product is for export.
Nice article but distinctly wooly in hard fact if you try to cross-ref elsewhere.  |
Where exactly are you getting your figures? According to
this article Amazon is expected to sell 5 million Kindles this year alone (estimated by Citigroup, Barclays Capital, BGC Partners LP and ThinkEquity LLC with other analyst projecting up to 8 million Kindles). It has also been reported that Apple is selling 4.5 million iPads
a quarter (according to Tech CNN). This only takes into account two retailers. Maybe your sources are a little off, because I'm sure you would agree that more ebooks are going to be sold than ereaders, so your 4 million may be a bit low.