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Old 02-04-2011, 09:07 PM   #205
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Originally Posted by DiapDealer View Post
Even if you purchased it on your Kindle, you could have read the majority of it on your iPod/Pad/Phone.

The above demonstrates exactly why ANY numbers -- official or otherwise -- will never be able to be trusted. Just because an ebook was purchased on one device does not mean that that's the device (or the only device) the ebook was read with.

The numbers are really rather meaningless when it boils down to it. Just because 20% of Kindle books being sold are being delivered to non-Kindle devices doesn't necessarily mean that the percentage of Amazon users reading Kindle books on an iOS platform is 20% or less of the total users. Users numbers and sales numbers will never be able to be reconciled.
Exactly. The device used to read and the device used to purchase might be the same... or they might be different. Only the individuals doing the purchasing and the companies doing the selling know for sure. For me, the devices and apps used to read ebooks, be it kindle or epub, and the devices used to purchase those ebooks are almost never the same.
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