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Old 05-14-2011, 07:30 AM   #4
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Originally Posted by RainingLemur View Post
I wonder if they count free ebooks as actual purchases.

Regardless, it's a cool milestone. Congrats to Amazon and all the other ebook vendors out there.
They've previously said they don't.
They may not reveal specifics but they are also careful not to puff up their numbers in ways that could...annoy...regulators. It's like their catalog size, where they distinguish between revenue-generating commercial titles (600k) and the 1.8 million free and pd titles, where others would (and do) add up the numbers to claim millions of books in *their* catalog.
All indications are their obfuscation is aimed at competitors, not consumers.
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