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Originally Posted by Harmon
I think that the most interesting figure is that for books which are available both in paper & ebook versions, ebooks are getting 35% of the sales.
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I hate to sound like a rules-mechanic, but given how closely Amazon is playing its cards to its chest, I
have to ask:
First, is that figure for sales units or dollars?
More importantly, for those books that have a Kindle version, is that 35% of sales in electronic form related to sales of just among
Kindle owners (no doubt even people with Kindles still buy in paper) or
all sales of the title, across
all buyers, regardless of Kindle ownership?
I suspect your answer to that last will be 'I don't know'... which would be exactly the problem I have with all the Kindle hype.
If the Kindle sold even a quarter as well as some people have speculated, then Amazon would be rightly acknowledged as the eBook king and they'd be crowing their sales figures from every rooftop.
I strongly suspect that Amazon is cherry-picking its comments playing fast & loose with its statistics.