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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Again garbage, Amazon does not release sales numbers. So it's all a guess. And outside the USA, why would Amazon be #1 when ePub is the #1 format outside the USA? I'm sorry, but Amazon has bamboozled the press.
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I think that you misunderstood the comment.
The article I mentioned makes reference to pieces of hardware, not ebooks. That data is available and IDC and other companies generates report from that. It is not a guess. As a matter of fact, IDC also mentions that Sony (in Europe) it's gaining market and numbers should be even in a year or two.
ePub can be #1 on Europe, but there are a bunch of different devices as well. The data is being segregated by company or device on which Amazon leads. If you take all those devices (A, B, C, X, W) that handles ePubs, together have sold more than Kindle but Amazon has sold more units as a company alone, for the Kindle as main device.
So it's not about how popular the format is or not but how well an specific company did selling their devices.