All I can say is that this is the figure that Apple used in court filings. If it isn't accurate, then I would have expect the Gov't to pile on a charge of perjury. I wouldn't be surprised if a large part of their sale is to the occasional reader, rather than the dedicated reader, i.e. beach books and best sellers.
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Originally Posted by Hitch
Y'know, I keep reading this,
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
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