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Originally Posted by queentess
No, my point was that you're making sweeping generalizations that aren't based upon any facts. Would love to see some hard data on why you think epub and mobi are the leading formats. You accuse Americans of thinking they're the center of the world, yet you're being very Euro-centric in your thinking.
As for U.S. inhabitants "acting like they are the world", according to this article, the U.S. accounted for about 80% of global ebook sales in 2010. That is not a small marketshare. |
Learn to read.... I say that there are GLOBALLY three more or less leading formats. I never say ePUB is bigger/larger than mobi. I just say there is more than the US. I also am not Euro-Centric. I know there is more 'out there'. I also know that the Asian is a totally other market and I have no doubt there are more formats in use there. To be hones, the Asian literature market is mostly unknown in the Western world. Only a few books make it here. This is of course not counting Manga and alike.
I have doubt about the report mentioned in the article. It is not specifying sources, so it cannot be checked. A good report always have sources and figures. Also, if you look at their other reports, I have doubts about their validity.
I have no doubt that the US market is larger than the european market. Heck, I am also a customer on the US market. Why is the market larger? One is of course just numbers. More inhabitants make a larger market. The other one is better and earlier availability of readers. Also the publisher aim their arrows at their largest markets first. Localised markets are not populair because they are smaller. Will that change in the future? Probably, but the local markets will never be bigger. There will more native English than other languages, except maybe Spanish.