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Originally Posted by Notjohn
From the Wall Street Journal today (page B4):
Amazon "accounted for 64% of the U.S. e-book market by units sold, during the second quarter, according to Codex."
(That's Codex Group LLC, whose website doesn't tell me much except that they're located in NYC.)
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Meh. I looked at their website, fairly thoroughly, and see no way that would indicate how on earth they'd calculate that. They all come out of trade-pubbing (which means...a definite skew on the view), and how *would* they "count" sales?
By trade-publishers, through Books In print--which only tracks books that have ISBNs? Amazon's not saying; nor does anyone else report on this. It's daft. And I'll say--without blinking--that number is bollocks. 64%? Nyet. I don't have a single client selling under 80% on Amazon, in terms of total sales and as I said, most are far greater, even those distributing via LSI, IS, BookBaby, etc.
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