Read what I wrote... the someone is the person who wrote the original article... why do you take comments that are clearly nothing to do with you, so personally. I also said it was interesting and then clearly explained why I thought the article was flawed as the figures didn't make sense. And what is much harder than a quote of $12 billion of business for 4 million books... you don't need a calculator to end up with an average of $3000 per book which, as I said, doesn't make sense.
None of this has anything to do with you except that I found your dismissal of the arithmetic not making sense being unimportant but the "booming" sales are important when the only evidence of these sales, in the article, is the numbers which are clearly flawed.
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Originally Posted by boxcorner
Sorry, I'm afraid I don't follow you. Who is this someone to whom you are referring? Who do you think is making claims that are based on arithmetic statements and then dismissing them in a cavalier fashion, disingenuously? I trust that you aren't referring to me, because I haven't made any claims, consequently, I don't see how I could possibly dismiss them as you say. Look, I am not claiming anything here, least of all any knowledge about publishing education e-books in China. In post #2, I simply quoted points that I found interesting. I don't claim them to be true - just interesting. If you doubt the claim(s) made by the author in his article about China's digital publishing industry then it would be useful if you were to provide some clear or hard facts of your own to substantiate your view, instead of referring readers here to, dare-I-say woolly, cross-references elsewhere.
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