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Originally Posted by adamsolympia
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 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 plus 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 books sales. Kinda hard to imagine how they could do that, with such a "small number of devices" ;-) |
I think "small number of devices" referred to the fact that iBooks are restricted to iOS devices, whereas books from Amazon, Kobo, B&N, and Google can be read on pretty much any device you choose.
Shari