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Originally Posted by JSWolf
I'm going to say you did make a mistake. B&N does not belong in your list. Kobo belongs instead of B&N.
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Jon, dear, I was speaking historically, was I not? At the time, yes (and for that matter, probably YET still), B&N was outselling KoboBooks and
additionally, it was US-based.
Nonetheless and regardless, it's
entirely possible that B&N is still outselling B&N. The fact that the (relatively minuscule) reading community on MR doesn't like B&N anymore, because they can no longer crack the DRM, affects very few of the core eReading people out there, who click, buy, book magically goes to device, read and never bother to remove DRM.
Would you like me to tell you, of the 6K eBooks we've done, at my shop, for just under 5K customers, exactly
how many even knew how to side-load the eBook to their
own Kindles, much less do anything else?
I can count the number on my digits. Don't assume that what MRers think has any basis or relationship to the general "real world" of ebook buyers out there. Or what
you think, for that matter. It doesn't. People will continue to do absolutely ANYTHING as long as it's the path of least resistance.
Hitch