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Originally Posted by Tarana
The main reason why the sales are down, IMHO, is that they raised prices.
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The main reason *their* ebook sales are down.
There are indications that smaller tradpubs are doing fine. Likewise AmazonPublishing, which is tradpub, and Indies, who are still expanding their aggregate share.
Mind you, given the price disparity between BPH titles and everybody else's, it is not impossible that a big enough drop in their unit sales might overwhelm a double digit *increase* in everybody else's since the publishing media only reports gross dollar sales and not unit sales. A big enough drop in average selling price can make even a booming market look stagnant of in decline when viewed through inappropriate metrics.
(As in, for every $12 ebook consumers refuse to buy, they could buy three Indie titles and the pundits could still see a "drop" even though more books were sold to more readers.)