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Old 05-14-2009, 08:56 PM   #75
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Quick note: going through searching by titles for each letter of the alphabet (7404 "A" books, 4565 "B" books, etc.) gets a total of 87,867 ebooks. Which is rather a bit short of 750,000, even if they count multiple filetypes as multiple books. I rather imagine they don't offer 9+ filetypes for each.
Before I read your post I did an empty title search and got 105,968 hits. I also totaled the categories and got 104,361. I may have missed something. Amazon has 111K in fiction alone. Cooler has 33K. They both have some duplicates and some PD works in there. I did notice they had more titles under Business & Investing than Amazon, though. I think you're quite right that they are stretching things with counting each format. It looks like not all titles are available in every format, though.
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