Thread: 600k ebooks in 5 days
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Old 04-08-2010, 01:23 PM   #3
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Originally Posted by scottjl View Post
according to steve jobs, people downloaded 600k books in 5 days from the itunes book store. not too shabby.. about 250k were downloaded in the first day alone.

other stats:

"about 450,000 ipads sold" in those 5 days
3.5 million apps downloaded in those 5 days
The real question: how many of those 600k were free ebooks. Because what the iBookstore needs to be competitive is *sales*, not downloads.
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