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Old 10-10-2009, 06:52 AM   #120
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Originally Posted by pshrynk View Post
Amazon is notoriously silent on sales figures of the Kindle and books. It would be interesting, I just don't expect that we'll hear any time soon.
According to the Times newspaper (Thursday 8th October)

Kindle is Amazon's best-selling product.
Bezos expects sales of e-books to exceed those of physical books ; currently selling 48 kindle copies for every 100 equivalent pbook (5 months ago it was 35 per 100).
US e-reader sales 60% Amazon against 35% Sony.
e-book sales increased from $29.8m (jan-jun 2008) to $81.5m (jan-jun 2009) [world-wide or US not made clear].

Booksellers world-wide noticed e-versions of "The Lost Symbol" began to outstrip p-books within days.

In last paragraphs points made are :
format of books needs to be sorted (ePub v azw/prc - etc) confusing and frustrating customers.
Price of readers needs to reduce by at least half or they will remain a niche product.
Signs of tablet PC market developing (especially Apple) with more functionality and hence appeal.
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