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Originally Posted by Catlady
I'm just wondering--with Agency books, so price is eliminated as a factor, do people with devices that can have both Kindle and Nook/Kobo/etc. apps buy epubs or Amazon books? That would be an interesting survey.
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Ask and ye shall receive:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=119124
Courtesy of Maggie Leung. Good find.
As of last November, Kindle got 40% of iPad ebook sales, B&N got 12%, Apple 29% (impressive! expecially considering their limited catalog) and "other" (Kobo, Fictionwise, Baen, Feedbooks, etc) got 19%. If this kind of pattern recurs on Android (where there is no Apple app) Kindle would be running about 57% there and likely higher on Blackberry and WP7. Amazon's Kindle-everywhere strategy would seem to be working just fine.
BTW, they also discovered that Kindle owners (as a group) were buying about as many print books as before getting a Kindle. No immediate cannibalization in the sample.
Looks like ebook competition is alive and well so there is no need to fret about any monopoly just yet.