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Old 03-03-2011, 07:56 AM   #13
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Originally Posted by jbcohen View Post
Wow and how does that compare to the number of book sales from Amazon and Barns and Nobles? Do electronic readers go to electronic book stores for their electronic book or do they go to a computer company? When I started learning about electronic book I emediately associated electronic books with the two dominant book stores in my home town, Borders and Barns and Nobles, however I can understand why others associate electronic books with Apple. Is apple leading in terms of number of ebooks sold? I am rather interested in what can be learned via an analysis of the data.
Amazon don't give out many hard numbers. They have said that since 1st January 2011, in the US, they have sold 115 ebooks for every 100 paperbacks they've sold.

Morris Rosenthal estimates that in the last week of 2010, Amazon sold 3 million ebooks.

Amazon also noted that their top five best-selling Kindle authors have each sold over 500,000 Kindle ebooks each.

NB Apple's 100 million might well include free ebooks, which Amazon's figures don't.
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