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Originally Posted by Indigo121
New Zealand book sales are based on local stores. eReader owners buy their books online, therefore not adding to local sales figures.
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I don't know how the industry sales figure are collected, but each publisher would get information, at least from the big retailers like Amazon and Kobo, about which country their ebooks were sold to.
After all, publishers are able to set different prices in different countries and geographically restrict which books are available for sale in which countries at these retailers, so they must know which countries their book sales are being attributed to.
Edit: Also local bookshops like Whitcoulls and Paper Plus sell ebooks on their websites, or at least provide a portal into the Kobo site, so I assume they would include those sales in their sales figures.