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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Wake up and see that all you are doing is looking just inside the US. If you took into account the entire world, you would see that ePub is the format outside the US. That combined with the US makes ePub overall the #1 format.
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What I find fascinating about this debate about formats is really how little hard data exists about eBooks: sales/downloads of the eBooks themselves, sales by format, and sales by hardware device. There is only one company that even consistently reports actual hardware device sales and downloads-and they aren't even considered a major player by many. The other numbers tend to be from 3rd party analysts, or suppliers who can only say what has been shipped, not sold.
I think it is very difficult come to any definitive conclusions about the whole industry right now. I wonder if the industry (read: Amazon, B&N, and Sony, for starters) will ever open up and actually report sales at some point.