Thread: E-book of Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol outsells the hardback on Amazon
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Old 09-16-2009, 02:30 PM   #18
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Originally Posted by Superlucky View Post
That theory doesn't seem plausible or sensible to me. Have you seen our MR poll on the topic? Even if x% of those book sales would have been hardback (hardly likely), then the profits of those sales would be eclipsed by people getting a pdf from the darknet, which in this case was available the day of the release.
PDF is not an eBook format, Superlucky--as per doubtless more MR polls, threads, and posts than I could possibly reference.

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