Thread: Upromise World's Largest eBook Store?
View Single Post
Old 08-22-2009, 12:38 PM   #4
goldilocks
Addict
goldilocks ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.goldilocks ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.goldilocks ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.goldilocks ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.goldilocks ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.goldilocks ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.goldilocks ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.goldilocks ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.goldilocks ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.goldilocks ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.goldilocks ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
Posts: 344
Karma: 1222222
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Florida
Device: Sony PRS-505
Quote:
Originally Posted by emellaich View Post
OK, I'll bite -- because I don't think you really meant your comment seriously. I suspect you just meant this as spam.

So if we want to define this as the world's largest ebook store we need to know more about how they are hosted. If you really want to be the largest ebook store, you only need to sell one book -- just make sure you have a really large server farm .

If you sell 10 million books, but you only use shared web hosting I think you are pretty small.

p.s. I didn't visit your link, but upromise is a pretty well known web site, and I suspect they just private brand the Barnes & Noble store.

p.p.s. If you really mean to have a serious conversation on this, there is a convention most people are more comfortable with. Come here, visit a while and add a little value to the forums before you begin steering folks to web links that offer you some gain. Leading off one of your first posts with a pitch to buy something from you (figuratively) is generally seen as spam.
I'm not trying to sell anything. This was not a spam message. This was from an actual email I received from Upromise. I just thought it was interesting they are claiming to be that B&N is the World's Largest. I don't think it means how many times they sell one ebook, I think it means how many different ebooks they are selling. Such as, B&N is selling 700,000 ebooks vs Amazon selling 300,000.

If you are familiar with Upromise, then you should know that companies form an alliance (I don't know their rules) with them to donate money for COLLEGE educations. It can only be used for that purpose. What kind of gain do you think I am getting?

Goldilocks
goldilocks is offline   Reply With Quote