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Originally Posted by tribble
seems that we are a dying race  |
"New York, NY, May 22, 2007: The Association of American Publishers (AAP) has today released its annual estimate of total book sales in the United States. The report, which uses data from the Bureau of the Census as well as sales data from eighty-one publishers inclusive of all major book publishing media market holders, estimates that U.S. publishers had net sales of $24.2 billion in 2006.
"Trade sales of adult and juvenile books grew 2.9 percent to $8.3 billion, a compound growth rate of 3.7 percent per year since 2002. The strongest growth in this category came from adult paperback books whose sales rose 8.5 percent on last year to a total of $2.3 billion. Adult hardbound books also had a strong year growing by 4.1 percent to $2.6 billion."
"Mass market paperbacks saw growth of 4.6 percent in 2006 reaching $1.1 billion.""
Simply put...this is yet another case of Jobs having no clue what he's talking about.
Apple got so big and arrogant that they're exacly the same as Microsoft was ten years ago and just like MS missed out on some opportunities the same will happen with Apple.