{"id":268546,"date":"2009-02-10T15:01:14","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T15:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2009\/02\/10\/now-thats-some-math-i-can-get-on-board-with\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:24:22","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:24:22","slug":"now-thats-some-math-i-can-get-on-board-with","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2009\/02\/10\/now-thats-some-math-i-can-get-on-board-with\/","title":{"rendered":"Now That's Some Math I Can Get On Board With"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kindle sales figures continue to be as clear as mud . . . After yesterday morning’s announcement of Kindle 2.0, it was reported everywhere — thanks in part to the misleading<\/del> awesome chart below and to Bezos’s actual words: “Today, more than 10 percent of the units we sell are Kindle books.” — that 10% of Amazon’s sales are of e-books. <\/p>\n

Which, as CNN<\/span> pointed out, is a bit odd, since only “200,000 titles — a tiny fraction of the books offered on the site — are available in digital form.” <\/p>\n

Well, thankfully GalleyCat<\/a> followed up on this:<\/p>\n

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GalleyCat asked an Amazon spokesperson for clarification. They reduced that early number: “Kindle sales make up more than 10 percent of sales of books that are available in both traditional and e-book form.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

That’s an awful big difference . . . Really makes me wonder about that 500,000 unit claim that’s been floating around . . .<\/p>\n

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