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Originally Posted by darryl
The answer is I really don't know. I haven't seen any up to date attempt to break it down, and I'm not sure if anyone but Amazon really has much of an idea. The source of this 65% figure was actually a simple comment to the Shatzkin post. It was okay to illustrate my point, but I have no idea how accurate or otherwise it is.
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I understood your point and that number has been thrown around for 2 years. I am pretty sure the BPH know what percentage of e and p books they sell on the fiction side. I would also bet it would be about 50/50. Just a guess on my part there.
But to me just throwing out that 65% figure without context makes very little sense. I know science textbooks and needlepoint books do not translate well to ebooks.
That would be like me saying 10% of my facebook friends are good authors. The next logical question would be how many of your Facebook friends are authors.