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Originally Posted by Dahak
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?
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It seems to me that logically, it has to be units, since ebooks are priced lower than pbooks, so the percentage for units will always be higher than the percentage for dollars, and Amazon - or any seller - would always use the higher percentage.
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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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My guess is that it's a measurement of sales among Kindle owners. The reason I think this is the same as above: Amazon will always use the higher percentage, and measuring sales limited to Kindle owners will always give a higher percentage than measuring across all buyers.
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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.
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I think I have given you the correct answers to your very perceptive questions, and await your observations about what those answers might mean!
EDIT: I posted my answers without reading on down the thread, but nothing I read changes my answers. It is to Amazon's advantage to puff on these matters, so the way to read their statements is to assume that they are puffed.