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Australians Love Affair with eBooks
I'm definitely not Australian, but I'm glad of this news!
[more love for ebooks in Australia article] eBook sales have flattened out or even begun to decrease in North America and the UK. This isn’t the case in Australia though, where in the last two years the industry has seen rapid growth. Quote:
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Well good for Australians. But I did not know Americans and British were slowing down on their e-book purchases. Does that mean they are returning to paper books or that they are on average reading less, I wonder?
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Could you give a link to support the claim that ebook sales are declining in the US and UK?
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What are the main sales channels for eBooks in Australia?
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Well, clearly the Australian's are buying up more than their share of the available eBooks, leading to a shortage of availability in the US and the UK. This has lead to increased prices in the US and UK, with the corresponding fall in sales.
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I suspect that the figures that supposedly show a decline in US and UK ebook sales are wrong. See the info in the January 2015 Author Earnings report.
The argument is that the traditional book sales counting methods greatly undercount self and small publishers, especially in ebooks. |
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well it might be slowing down. In my case it has. When I first got my kindle I went crazy and rebought most of my keepers, several thousand dollars of ebooks. In the last year I've slowed down considerately as I've already replaced the majority of my library and am mostly buying new books. That doesn't mean I've slowed down reading or have returned to paper.
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Let me follow that logic: Because Australians buy more ebooks, there's a SHORTAGE of ebooks being sold in the US and the UK, and therefore US and UK citizens purchase less ebooks due to higher prices BECAUSE of this shortage? I'm sorry, but I find this logic dubious, at best. |
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