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Originally Posted by Dahak
First, is that figure for sales units or dollars?
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Don't know. Units was sort-of the implication -- if a book had a Kindle version, 35% of all purchases were the Kindle version -- but it might have been dollars too. But if it were dollar amount, that would be even more impressive, since the Kindle versions are cheaper.
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Originally Posted by Dahak
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?
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Across all buyers.
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Originally Posted by Dahak
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.
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Ask any average person on the street if they've heard of Kindle. If they say yes, ask them to name any other ebook reader. Chances are Kindle is the only one they're familiar with.
I suspect you'll hear Amazon crowing their sales figures once they reach 1 million Kindles. So far they've only sold 700K - 900K.