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Originally Posted by cybmole
quoting: "... As for "only power users", the free version of calibre cloud has had 10,000-50,000 downloads. That is a lot of people to all be power users."
but what % of free app downloaders actually keep & use an app.
surely the calibre cloud pro downloads count is a better guide to how many would buy, & that is at only 500-1000 installs. ( google)
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I don't agree. There is no reason for many people, perhaps most people, to buy Calibre Cloud Pro because the free version does enough. As corroboration, we have reason to believe that there are many thousands of active Calibre Sync users out there, so even though it doesn't do anywhere near as much as CC and (in my experience playing with it) is quite unreliable, it does enough.
The "free version does enough" issue is why we put such a draconian book limit on CCDemo. We wanted to give people a way to test CC for free while not satisfying peoples' needs over the long term. It seems to be working. Our refund requests have plummeted to near zero and our sales haven't changed.