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Originally Posted by Nate the great
you are wrong on almost every point.
Yes they do release stats; perhaps you've heard of the AAP's month reports. The Big 5 also release quarterly reports which frequently include ebook revenue stats.And there's the Author Earnings Report.
Also, the original discussion point for this thread was the claim that ebook sales were down when in fact that stat was based solely on publisher ebook sales rather than the market, where the Author Earnings report says ebook sales have not decreased.
So you're not just wrong, you are embarrassingly wrong.
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I suspect you don't understand what is released. Companies publish financial statements. Those financial statements only talk about money, not units sold (unless the company wish to). A company's overall revenue (which in 2016 was at an all time high for Penguin, btw) doesn't actually match units sold. Actual units sold for a publisher, or even a given author is not something that is normally released. If you have a source for actual units sold that doesn't involve some guy making a guess, then by all means, show us. Author Earnings Report is a guy making guesses.