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Originally Posted by fjtorres
That one sounds like a (premature) celebration of all the ways they got to screw over consumers.
And it is so blinded by Amazon-hate it attributes to the price fix something that had happened *before* the conspiracy. 30% Amazon losses due to Agency? Baloney! Nook was running well over 20% *before* Agency kicked in.
http://mashable.com/2010/06/29/barnes-and-noble-4q/
From June 2010, reporting 2009 sales:
Add in Sony, Kobo, and the independents now gone and you get the "magical 30% Amazon is supposed to have lost due to Agency. Truth is Amazon has lost nothing in ebook share since early 2010. (They have, however, *won* a lot in readers and tablets.)
All the added "competitiveness" the BPHs claim to see from the Apple side is coming out of the Nook and indie side of the ledger, not Amazon. |
The numbers are bogus. Amazon is not releasing numbers. So there is no way to know what's actually correct. Sony, Kobo, Independents adding up to only 10% is too low a number to be believed. I'm sorry, but I do not believe articles like that.
When you take into account B&N, Sony, Kobo, and other Readers (no tablets), I would think (IMHO) that they would total to more then 30% (in just the US but add in Canada and the Amazon numbers are most likely lower).