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Originally Posted by JSWolf
That's because people don't want to buy eBooks from Apple. They are the ones that had a major hand in bringing out higher Agency pricing. So it's only fair that Apple tanks when it comes to eBooks. 20% is wrong. It's not that high a percent. Also, on an iPhone, iBooks is garbage. They huge margins makes the reading experience lousy. That and for those of us who do strip DRM, it's easier to strip DRM from ePub (not Apple) and Kindle eBooks.
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Wolfie is right. Folks on ipads/phone seem to want to buy apps, games and videos--they are consumers of that type of content. Books? Not so much, by a huge margin. We have, as I've said before, every type of author known to man, other than hardcore porn, and the numbers we see (excepting, curiously enough, one guy with a book on self-hypnosis) are 1%, tops. The usual numbers, even for NYTimes Bestsellers are 1 book on iBooks for every 1,000 on Amazon. Maybe 1 in 100,
if they're doing really well. (This tends to be YA fiction or erotica.) About 20 per hundred for B&N to Amazon, and something like 1 in a hundred for Kobo. After that, it gets ever-smaller for the other platforms.
Hitch