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Old 12-09-2017, 11:52 AM   #61
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That is a boilerplate taken straight from a paper book.

It's irrelevant to an e-book, or you would never be able to read it outside of the computer you first downloaded it on. You wouldn't even be able to MOVE it from one folder to another, because such a move means it has to be copied first.
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Old 12-10-2017, 04:19 AM   #62
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I use Google Play. They are the cheapest here as we don't have Amazon and only other store Kobo is sometimes twice as much pricy. There is only one store for Turkish book, but Google Play sells same books for the same prices.
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Old 12-10-2017, 01:26 PM   #63
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That is a boilerplate taken straight from a paper book.
Like the ebooks "printed on recycled paper"?

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It's irrelevant to an e-book, or you would never be able to read it outside of the computer you first downloaded it on. You wouldn't even be able to MOVE it from one folder to another, because such a move means it has to be copied first.
If both directories are on the same partition, and the file system is decent, no copying is required.
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Old 12-10-2017, 01:48 PM   #64
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Like the ebooks "printed on recycled paper"?
I only buy e-books that are printed on recycled paper
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Old 12-10-2017, 02:05 PM   #65
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Since the "paper" in our ereaders is the e-ink screen and we use it page after page, book after book, it's easily recycled paper.

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Old 12-10-2017, 05:09 PM   #66
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Like the ebooks "printed on recycled paper"?
LOL, yeah. "This book is printed on recycled paper" when you're looking at it on an e-reader

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If both directories are on the same partition, and the file system is decent, no copying is required.
Ow, darn. Now they have to include a prohibition against linking files too
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Old 12-12-2017, 12:48 PM   #67
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On a related note, I read an article on a news website today that in the United States, Amazon owned 90% of the eBook market back in 2011/2012, but "only" owns 70% of the United States eBook market today. I wonder where they obtained their numbers from, and where that 20% went between 2011/2012 and 2017/2018. Kobo?
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Old 12-12-2017, 02:58 PM   #68
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On a related note, I read an article on a news website today that in the United States, Amazon owned 90% of the eBook market back in 2011/2012, but "only" owns 70% of the United States eBook market today. I wonder where they obtained their numbers from, and where that 20% went between 2011/2012 and 2017/2018. Kobo?
Barnes and Noble is bigger than Kobo in the US. Though I doubt they are 30%. I'd guess it's a mixture of B&N, Kobo, Apple, Google, publisher's own websites, Smashwords, etc.
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Old 12-12-2017, 07:43 PM   #69
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I think in the first few years of the Kindle Amazon was the ebook market. The ebook sellers before that were too small to notice in comparison with amazon. Since then there are a number of small competitors and that's where the 20% went.

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I think in the first few years of the Kindle Amazon was the ebook market. The ebook sellers before that were too small to notice in comparison with amazon. Since then there are a number of small competitors and that's where the 20% went.

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And of course the size of the market just exploded.
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Old 12-12-2017, 10:46 PM   #71
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Barnes and Noble is bigger than Kobo in the US. Though I doubt they are 30%. I'd guess it's a mixture of B&N, Kobo, Apple, Google, publisher's own websites, Smashwords, etc.
Based on what I saw doing some google searches, you are correct with the largest chunk (approx 12%) going to Apple iBooks.
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And of course the size of the market just exploded.
Not to mention if a self-published author wants their book perma-free at Amazon, they have to put it on Kobo.
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Mills and Boon, Amazon, Story Bundle, Regency Reads and Kobo. Amazon purchases on the kindle the rest on the kobo.
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