Thread: Publishers Agonize(?) Over Ebook Release Dates
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Old 07-16-2009, 11:24 AM   #40
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Originally Posted by Elfwreck View Post
This is potentially not considering the used sales of the same books. Since a book will list "used: $4" right on the same page with "new: $27; Kindle $10"... the fact that new copies outsell Kindles only by 2 to 1 would not not be amazing.

I want to know if Amazon is considering the used markets as well when they say that 1/3 of a title's sales are Kindlebooks if it's available.
It also occurs to me that the average kindle owner's eBook purchases are restricted to amazon's list of eBooks.

This means that while those people may spend the same amount of money on books as those who buy pBooks, they have a smaller set of books to spread those purchases between... thereby inflating the eBook purchase percentages for those books.

A more useful statistic would be: how many eBooks do eBook purchases buy in a year vs. how many pBooks to pBook purchasers buy in a year? I really doubt there ought to be a big discrepancy.

I think there is little doubt that eBook device owners read more--but do they really buy more? Do people on Mobileread find that they started spending more money on books since they got their eBook reader?

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