Comments on: Amazon now sell more ebooks than hardbacks http://www.the-digital-reader.com/2010/07/19/amazon-now-sell-more-ebooks-than-hardbacks/ The Best News and Info on Ebooks and eReaders Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:57:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Nate the greathttp://www.the-digital-reader.com/2010/07/19/amazon-now-sell-more-ebooks-than-hardbacks/#comment-3260 Nate the great Tue, 20 Jul 2010 02:41:11 +0000 http://www.the-digital-reader.com/?p=7003#comment-3260 TBH, I'm still thinking about it. I don't see the selective data. TBH, I’m still thinking about it. I don’t see the selective data.

]]> By: Thad McIlroy, The Future of Publishinghttp://www.the-digital-reader.com/2010/07/19/amazon-now-sell-more-ebooks-than-hardbacks/#comment-3259 Thad McIlroy, The Future of Publishing Tue, 20 Jul 2010 02:36:34 +0000 http://www.the-digital-reader.com/?p=7003#comment-3259 Another sad case of "selective data" from Amazon, meant to deceive rather than illuminate. Choose the most expensive book format on Amazon, and compare its sales to one of the least expensive. It would be just as revealing to know the ratio of toaster-oven sales to eBooks. But of course it's reported EVERYWHERE, further accelerating eBook mythology and countering a growing chorus of analysts concerned about competition to the Kindle from the iPad and other devices. Paperbacks outsell hardcovers by a higher ratio than eBooks to hardcovers. And as the report in the Wall Street Journal concluded: "The statistics that Amazon shared in the Monday news release were all relative—the company stopped short of sharing actual sales figures. The company has never said how many Kindle devices or e-books it has sold." Bezos is very smart and works the patsies in the press like the maestro he's become. Another sad case of “selective data” from Amazon, meant to deceive rather than illuminate. Choose the most expensive book format on Amazon, and compare its sales to one of the least expensive. It would be just as revealing to know the ratio of toaster-oven sales to eBooks.

But of course it’s reported EVERYWHERE, further accelerating eBook mythology and countering a growing chorus of analysts concerned about competition to the Kindle from the iPad and other devices.

Paperbacks outsell hardcovers by a higher ratio than eBooks to hardcovers. And as the report in the Wall Street Journal concluded: “The statistics that Amazon shared in the Monday news release were all relative—the company stopped short of sharing actual sales figures. The company has never said how many Kindle devices or e-books it has sold.”

Bezos is very smart and works the patsies in the press like the maestro he’s become.

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