{"id":725,"date":"2011-05-27T11:45:46","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T16:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/38enso.com\/?p=725"},"modified":"2014-01-01T16:57:24","modified_gmt":"2014-01-01T21:57:24","slug":"ebooks-a-market-that-is-bigger-than-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/38enso.com\/?p=725","title":{"rendered":"eBooks &#8211; a market that is &#8216;bigger than itself.&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/38enso.com\/?attachment_id=726\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-726\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-726\" title=\"wall_skyscraper\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/38enso.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/wall_skyscraper-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>B&amp;N nook announced they have 25% of the eBook market.<\/p>\n<p>Kobo announced that they have 10% of the eBook market.<\/p>\n<p>Apple announced that they have 10% of the eBook market.<\/p>\n<p>Between the three, that adds up to 45%.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon didn&#8217;t announce anything regarding their eBook marketshare (they are too busy becoming a publisher). But most estimates have them between 60%-70%. Split the difference and it is 65%.<\/p>\n<p>25% + 10% + 10% + 65% = 110%. Yes, we are always told to give &#8220;110% percent&#8221;, even though that is impossible.<\/p>\n<p>But what about Google? Sony? All of the other eBook vendors? Publishers selling direct to consumer like Harlequin and Ellora&#8217;s Cave?<\/p>\n<p>I realize this is a highly competitive emerging market. These accounts are fighting for adopters, customers, faith and signs that they are making headway. I wish they were all right &#8212; the more the merrier. But the math doesn&#8217;t add up.<\/p>\n<p>I would love to see an independent organization report the market share. Individual publishers know exactly which retailers are selling their books. Can&#8217;t something be done to\u00a0aggregate\u00a0these numbers and give the industry real numbers and not press release exaggerations?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; B&amp;N nook announced they have 25% of the eBook market. Kobo announced that they have 10% of the eBook &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/38enso.com\/?p=725\" class=\"more-link\">Learn more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[14,51,43,55,117],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/38enso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/38enso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/38enso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/38enso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/38enso.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=725"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/38enso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1782,"href":"http:\/\/38enso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725\/revisions\/1782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/38enso.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/38enso.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/38enso.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}