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boswd · 06-25-2010, 11:19 PM

the selection of BN's ebooks have grown tremoundoulsy in the past few months. besides the listing of the amount of titles by amazon are extremely padded. Amazon will count each copy of one title to include in the overall number of titles given you the perception they have many more titles. Now yes everyone does this but Amazon seems to take to it different level. They count Dracular (one title) but they countabout 60 times because of all it's copies. BN I think stops at something 15 not sure about Sony. But you are talking about 40 more listings they include for their overall count but its still only one title.

Prices between the two have leveled. Back in Nov. Dec of 09 sure Amazon had everyone beat but between BN matching and then Apple coming in to strke their deal with publishers. Amazon's price advantage is no longer.

06-25-2010, 11:19 PM	#18
boswd Banned Posts: 2,391 Karma: 1001781 Join Date: May 2010 Device: The Nook, Nook color and Droid X	the selection of BN's ebooks have grown tremoundoulsy in the past few months. besides the listing of the amount of titles by amazon are extremely padded. Amazon will count each copy of one title to include in the overall number of titles given you the perception they have many more titles. Now yes everyone does this but Amazon seems to take to it different level. They count Dracular (one title) but they countabout 60 times because of all it's copies. BN I think stops at something 15 not sure about Sony. But you are talking about 40 more listings they include for their overall count but its still only one title. Prices between the two have leveled. Back in Nov. Dec of 09 sure Amazon had everyone beat but between BN matching and then Apple coming in to strke their deal with publishers. Amazon's price advantage is no longer. Last edited by boswd; 06-25-2010 at 11:23 PM.