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Originally Posted by carld
I don't remember the numbers, but 50% doesn't seem to remotely square with Amazon's statements as to where Kindle ebook sales are coming from. So yeah, I have to go with pulling 50% out of an orifice.
Regardless, if Apple engineers it so that Amazon can't make money on iPad ebook sales then that won't leave Amazon with any choice in the matter.
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There's a difference between a totally fictitious number and an educated guess. I think that Tobias Buckell has sufficiently made the case that 50% is a reasonable number... not necessarily accurate, but a reasonable guess.
Amazon claims that 20% of kindle books are downloaded by kindle apps but they never released the number of kindle devices sold to consumers nor the actual numbers of kindle books sold/downloaded to various devices. Secrecy with these type of numbers always means one thing... they're not as good as they hoped.
But if we accept Amazon's claim at face value, then the number of kindle books downloaded to iOS devices is less than 20%... perhaps significantly less.
And if that's the case, then I expect Amazon to yank the kindle app from the app store rather than give Apple a cut of kindle book sales. Because after all, with the growing number of non-iOS devices being sold this year, they can easily write off the small percentage of sales generated by iOS devices.