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Old 10-22-2011, 03:27 PM   #40
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Originally Posted by Andrew H. View Post
80% of e-books sold are sold in the US. In Europe, half of all e-books sold are sold in the UK, where the Kindle is even more dominant than it is in the US (presumably due to the absence of B&N). Kindle also has a significant presence in Canada and Australia. Epub does dominate in non-anglophone markets - but these markets are tiny. In Germany, where readers spend twice as much per capita as the British, they only buy 1/10 as many e-books. (It will be interesting to see if this changes since Amazon is now offering German e-books).

Epub is still an important format, but the fact that it is dominant in a large number of markets where e-books comprise 0.5% of all books sold doesn't tell much about its future importance.
ePub is the most important eBook format in all of history. If ePub was to ever go away, Amazon would rule and that would be not good for humanity.
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