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Originally Posted by AnemicOak
I'd say replace Apple with Google (which could flip flop with B&N) would be more accurate. Of course it's a complete WAG (just going off reading various things), but I don't know why anyone would lock in to iBooks when it only works on such a small number of devices. I suppose you do have those folks who buy a book, read it, and don't care what happens to it after that and Apple would be fine for that.
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That comment is a bit silly re: "don't know why anyone would lock in to iBooks when it only works on such a small number of devices."
There are over 700 million iOS devices out in the wild. That number is probably closer to a BILLION now since that figure is well over a year old. Since when, pray tell, is a BILLION a small number of devices?
All of the dedicated (eink) e-readers COMBINED haven't reached that number. Of course that's counting iPhones, which most people don't use iBooks to read on those (tho some do, which will only increase when more people own the iphone 6+ 5.5 inch) - Still, if we're just looking at ipads, Apple has sold over 200 million. (They sold 26 million in just the first quarter of 2014 (not to mention 50 million iphones in Q1) ... That's a LOT of potential ibooks customers. People who don't mind or even prefer reading on tablets, will likely have no problem sticking to their trusted apple ecosystem for books.
I personally prefer my Nook simple touch for epubs and iPad for PDFs.
Here's some more data of interest:
http://www.digitalbookworld.com/2014...er-in-the-u-s/
Looks like Apple might be close to ousting B&N's second place position behind Amazon in book sales. Kinda hard to imagine how they could do that, with such a "small number of devices" ;-)