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fjtorres · 02-24-2011, 06:28 PM

89% of hardware going to Kindle and Nook? Those numbers explain a lot.

1- Sounds about right.
2- Doesn't leave much for Sony and Kobo and "other"
3- With US sales running 72% of the world market (estimated at 11 million for 2010 by IDC) that works out to 5.4 million Kindles in the US and 2.6 million kindles outside the US. Which means Amazon foreign sales outsold the field outside the US by almost 2 to 1.
4- Nook had a very good first full year: about 1.7 million or equal to the entire non-Kindle, Non-nook field, worldwide.
5- Apple sold 9% of the ebooks. So much for the 20% brag. Explains the need to get competing reader apps out of iOS.

02-24-2011, 06:28 PM	#7
fjtorres Grand Sorcerer Posts: 11,732 Karma: 128354696 Join Date: May 2009 Location: 26 kly from Sgr A* Device: T100TA,PW2,PRS-T1,KT,FireHD 8.9,K2, PB360,BeBook One,Axim51v,TC1000	89% of hardware going to Kindle and Nook? Those numbers explain a lot. 1- Sounds about right. 2- Doesn't leave much for Sony and Kobo and "other" 3- With US sales running 72% of the world market (estimated at 11 million for 2010 by IDC) that works out to 5.4 million Kindles in the US and 2.6 million kindles outside the US. Which means Amazon foreign sales outsold the field outside the US by almost 2 to 1. 4- Nook had a very good first full year: about 1.7 million or equal to the entire non-Kindle, Non-nook field, worldwide. 5- Apple sold 9% of the ebooks. So much for the 20% brag. Explains the need to get competing reader apps out of iOS.