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Old 04-11-2010, 08:42 AM   #157
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Originally Posted by langshipley View Post
Do we know the "before" number?
I didn't think to check before the books disappeared. But if it was less than 100,000 I'd be very surprised.

Hmm... secure books on their site are now a little below 20,000. Let me look at secure ebooks in my bookshelf.

Of the 13 secure eReader books on my bookshelf, 12 are no longer on sale.
I have 477 secure Mobipocket books, so I can only do sample. Of the first 25 in alphabetical order, only 4 are still on sale (& none of them in Mobipocket format)
Of the 8 microsoft lit files, 2 are still on sale.

so out of 46 books, only 7 are still on sale. That's about 15%. There are about 20,000 secure ebooks on sale at the moment, so before the change there might have been 130,000.

Take that with a pinch of salt, of course. It's based on a very small (possibly unrepresentative) sample.

Does anyone have hard figures?
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