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Originally Posted by charleski
I don't have access to the BISG report, but Publishers Weekly says, "The BISG study found that e-books accounted for 8% of unit fiction sales in the fourth quarter of 2010" (emphasis added), which looks like they were counting individual units rather than a dollar value. |
Does BISG count all ebook sales, or only those through the Big 6 publishers, or only those through publishers? I doubt they have access to Smashwords' and Lulu's sales numbers, and if they're getting statistics from publishers, rather than bookstores, they're not getting self-published ebook data.