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Originally Posted by Scott Nicholson
As an author who gets my income reported directly, and from the data of other indie authors, I can tell you iBooks maybe--with a huge stretch--has three percent of the ebook market. I'd put it at one percent (remember Steve Jobs claiming a third of the ebook market a year ago?) Maybe they're trying to be more competitive,
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1- Apple stopped bragging about the number of ebooks *downloaded* from iBooks over a year ago. Their claim of a third of the market was for *one publisher* and only the first month. They just phrased it as if that reflected the full ebook market.
2- There was a thread round these parts last fall that reported that iBooks, at the time, held a 28% share of iOS ebook *sales*, with Kindle and Nook running about 60%.
3- Last week, there was a comment circulating that Apple had sold more iPads than *paid* ebooks through iBooks. Not sure how accurate it might be but it probably reflects the underlying reality that with iPad Apple hit a homerun and with iBooks a dribbler to the catcher.
Numbers aside, it is clear Apple wouldn't be doing this if iBooks were any kind of success, right?