Thread: Amazon Kindle e-book downloads outsell paperbacks
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Old 02-12-2011, 06:08 PM   #160
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Originally Posted by ProfCrash View Post
Both of these two things make me think that there are more e-books in Mobi format and that more Mobi format e-books are sold.
This needs to be disambiguated. By "more e-books in Mobi format" do you mean "more titles available", or "more copies made"? Moby Dick can be had in both formats; thus, in terms of titles it's a statistical tie (and the technical triviality of conversion between the formats strongly suggests that in available-title terms it will always be a tie).

But if for every mobi Moby sold by Amazon, three epub Mobies are downloaded from Google, then epub Moby has out-Mobyed mobi Moby.

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