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The NYT seems to be fueling the delusions of publishers. What has hurt ebook sales:
Flood of Independent self-published ebooks on the market, many free or low priced.
No uniform format like with music (MP3) and DRM to further muddy the format waters.
But the biggest thing has been rising ebook prices from the publishers.
So 2 out of 3 of the reasons ebooks have probably slowed in sales are choices made by publishers.
But do we have any numbers anywhere about how many ebooks Amazon has given away or sold by Independents? I would be very surprised if those sales have slowed.
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