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Originally Posted by darryl
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I find your "Apples and Oranges" paragraph irrelevant. It seems to simply avoid the point, that is, that the Big 5 are steadily losing ebook market share.
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I broke this out since this is a very different discussion than the supreme court discussion.
It's not irrelevant in the slightest. The question for the Big 5 is are they losing ebook sales on the books that they publish, i.e. are they selling less books now than they did at a different price point. Of course, an economist would say that the question is are they making less money now than they did at a different price point, since the total sales aren't as important as the total profit.
The market share of big 5 ebooks in the overall ebook universe while an interesting subject isn't really indicative that the Big 5 have a good strategy or bad strategy. You would need to look at it more from a sales per title point of view. Even then, the question of how to compare a title which is for all practical purposes ebook only to a title which is mostly paper sales is a very big question indeed. That's assuming that you actually had access to the real data.