Thread: Publishers Agonize(?) Over Ebook Release Dates
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Old 07-16-2009, 10:12 AM   #34
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Originally Posted by ahi View Post
What percentage of North American readership is that? More than a tenth of a percent?
My guess is that between Amazon and Sony, more then 1 millions readers have been sold and that does not include any other brands. I cannot say what percentage of readers that makes up. But that is a lot of people to piss off. One of the reason to have a reader is to be able to get the latest books and not have to have the big bulky hardcovers. So even if they delay the eBook, we still aren't buying the hardcover. So you've lost nothing from Hardcover sales but plenty from eBook sales.

One thing I can easily see is because the eBook is not available, I can see eBook readers getting the hardcover from the library to read if they want to read it ASAP.
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