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Originally Posted by leebase
There are a billion iPhone/iPad users. Apple would not have been an insignificant player had the court decision gone differently.
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Doubtful. Amazon also has non-App products, sold paper books from the beginning. Apple only sells their own products and digital content. Google is better placed to sell ebooks than Apple and can't do it.
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Originally Posted by leebase
I'd still wager that more kindle books are read on phones and tablets than are read on eInk devices.
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No-one disagrees with that, though not much more. It's irrelevant fact for selling ebooks and also for the people reading.
We sell ebooks via Apple, B&N, Kobo, Tolino, Amazon, Google, Smashwords.
Over 1/3 are not via Amazon, so people locking into KDP Select (Amazon exclusive) are cheating themselves, building Amazon's near monopoly (92% of English title ebooks in world and 80% on paper for online sales in USA) and depriving some people that read.
In the last six years not one copy sold on Google!
Next largest volume after Amazon is Smashwords. Then Kobo, Apple, B&N are about the same. A few copies to other ebook sellers.
Amazon is also a publisher, and has bought publishing companies as well POD company, Goodreads and IMDB.
It's crazy all the big Publishers don't sell ebooks direct and are helping Amazon destroy them. Only paper versions need a distribution chain.
Perhaps Amazon & Apple compete on Streaming.