A few minutes ago I finished the book "Kindred" by Octavia Butler, which is a book that I probably never would have read if I wasn't trying to take advantage of the "buy a book and get a $10 credit" special offer that showed up on my daughter's Kindle w/ Special Offers. Many of the books either didn't appeal at all or we'd already read them.
I enjoyed it (other than the stupid Topaz formatting), and decided to learn more about the author, so I was reading her Wikipedia page when I saw this comment about the book:
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Kindred became the most popular of all her books, with more than 450,000 copies currently in print.
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Which got me to thinking...
What does that mean in terms of eBooks? Things can remain "in print" much longer than they do in paper, since the incremental cost of keeping the book in stock is so small. Also, printed copies don't necessarily equate to sold copies... yet, eBooks really don't count until they're sold as copies aren't really made.
Maybe I'm over thinking the term, but it seems that it'll be harder in some ways to make such statements with eBooks.