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Originally Posted by stonetools
Amazon is certainly ahead right now ( and far ahead when you add in Kindle and Android purchases) . However Apple is coming from zero 11 months ago, and ( as Ive said) its bookstore is far inferior.
However, the issue is the importance of the IOS platform compared to all other platforms. I wonder what the figuires are if we compare the ebooks sold on iOS platform compared to ebooks to Kindles, Nooks, Android devices etc.
Its impossible to know (because Amazon hides its figures)but we do know there are 160M iOS owners out there and that Apple has sold more Ipads in nine months than Amazomn has sold Kindles in 3 years.
Lets put it this way. If Apple went all out to dominate the ebook market, it quite likely could. Its not really trying right now.
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Apple's ability to dominate the ebook market is going to be severely curtailed by their refusal to sell to anyone who doesn't own one of their devices.
If we assume there are 160 Million iOS devices out there - and further assume that each iOS device is owned by a unique individual - and that all such devices are still in use - we still end up with slightly over 6.7 Billion people who do NOT own an iOS device.
It's not going to happen.
This is without considering the fact that since most people don't read, most iOS device owners probably don't read - while a majority of Kindle, Nook, and other dedicated reader device owners do.