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Originally Posted by Blue Tyson
Yes, but lots of those devices sold aren't to Americans, so won't be buying American books. So you can't assume all X devices are going to feed into US book sales.
If a Norwegian that only reads in Norwegian buys a kindle, sales of US 'Reporting Publisher' books from that device = zero, forever.
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True, but I was very conservative with my numbers. Two analysts have estimated 40-50 million Kindles will be sold in 2011 and 2012. North America has they say 80% of the market. That's still a lot of devices.
Plus add an unknown number of Nooks, Sonys and Kobos.
The hardware manufacturers need people to buy books from their stores to help defray the ongoing ereader production and development costs.