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Originally Posted by Psymon
... on my limiting any ebooks I might create specifically to iBooks? Like I said, I'm not really "in it for the money". It just seems so impractical for me, in my position -- both financially (I can't afford to buy a ton of different readers to test things) and "exasperatingly" (as far as designing multiple versions of each book for all the various platforms).
If anyone thinks I'm making a big mistake in thinking about limiting myself in this way, please don't hesitate to try to nudge me -- with valid reasons -- in a different direction....
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Well...you'll lose 90% of the ebook market according to this (2012) article - apple have only 10% - it varies somewhat by country but if you want max sales you need to look at kindle conversions then self publishing on Amazon
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2...a_fact_auletta
update- maybe you "only" lose 80% !
depends which article you read:
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blog...rt-ruling.html
The iBookstore, meanwhile, is currently Amazon’s most viable competitor in the e-book market: since its launch, in 2010, Amazon’s share of e-book sales has fallen to an estimated fifty to sixty per cent, and the iBookstore, according to the Apple executive Keith Moerer, now has twenty per cent of the market.