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Originally Posted by conan50
If publishers and these other ebook stores do not get their heads out of the sand, Amazon will own ebooks--it almost does now--and "Kindle" will be as synonymous with "Ebook" as "Xerox" is to a paper copy of something. I think it may already be too late for them, and higher ebook prices from the big publishers was the final nail in their own coffin.
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The BPHs certainly aren't doing them any favors given how dependent they are on BPH ebook sales for their revenue:
Apple: 74% BPH
Nook: 69% BPH
Kobo: 64% BPH
Google: 57% BPH*
Amazon: 46% BPH
Point to remember: Google has had a (reportedly) large problem with pirates using Google's unpoliced Indie channel to sell tradpub titles (mostly big name BPH authors) side by side with the legal editions so some portion of Google "indie" sales may be BPH titles, which might explain their relatively low BPH revenue.
Add in Amazon's aggressive discounting of BPH hardcovers and strength among Indies abd Agency 2.0 is looking to be the best thing to happen to Amazon bookselling since...
Well, since Agency 1.0.
