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Originally Posted by JSWolf
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.
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A lot in absolute terms... I don't think necessary a lot in relative terms. Particularly not for large publishers with international distribution and publicity campaigns.
Not to mention that judging by Mobileread members (many of whom own 2, 3, or more devices), those 1 million ebook reader devices might well be owned by less than 500,000 people (or not quite 0.15% of the US's + Canada's population together).
And I assume you'd agree that eBook reader devices other than Amazon and Sony would probably be dwarfed in number of sales by these big two.
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Originally Posted by Jellby
Or rather "what percentage of the purchases are made by those readers?", which should be more.
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Really? Why? Particularly since the prices are often on par with paperbacks.
If you mean
online purchases, sure. But I can't see eBook purchases being (in terms of purchases-per-person) statistically significantly higher than regular book purchases (both online and offline). Particularly with the incredible amount of free (and much of it legal) content available.
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Originally Posted by pdurrant
Amazon have said that, of those titles available in both paper and for the Kindle, the Kindle sales are about 35% of the total sales.
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/0...-from-the-few/
This is an astonishingly high figure, but might be because those most likely to buy books are also those most likely to have a Kindle. |
Now that, I don't know what to make of.
Weird, even with your reasonable explanation.
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