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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Friend, I think you have the facts totally wrong. First, you think that a company with 20% of the market should be whacked for using their massive market power against a company with 60+ % of the current market and 90% of the market when Apple opened the iBookstore? Seriously? Second, Apple did not stop their competitors for even *mentioning* their ebookstore. Amazon is not only welcome to mention their ebookstore, they are welcome to sale ebooks from the kindle app. The reason they don't is because Apple wants 30% of the price for the books they do sale, just like every other app. Amazon doesn't want to do that, so you have to buy via the web browser. What might be confusing you is that Amazon use to post the url to purchase the book via the web, which Apple considered a rather transparent attempt to bypass the 30% in app purchase charge.
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Y'know, I keep reading this,
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a company with 20% of the market
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when it comes to ebooks, but I think that somebody, somewhere, is blowing smoke up somebody's ass. Apple has 20% of the ebook market like I have 20% of the ebook-making market. That's daft. We have over 2K books made, of authors ranging from folks you've never heard of to folks you definitely have, and for every thousand books they sell on Amazon, they'll sell
one on iBooks, if that. I've seen some very odd niche books (self-hypnosis, for example; not making that up) do comparatively well on iBooks, but generally speaking, whether it's genre or literary or whatever, our client base doesn't sell squat there. And given the number, I'd think it would be fairly representative. A huge chunk of Apple's book database is books from Smashwords (which obviously isn't our client-base, at least, not until very recently when they started accepting ePUBs).
Maybe Apple is claiming it based on the number of books, or something; but man, nothing, nothing I've seen or discussed with anyone else in the biz indicates any numbers remotely close to this. Not
remotely.
FWIW. No dog in the fight...just an observation.
Hitch