{"id":4788,"date":"2010-02-19T09:40:38","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T14:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=4788"},"modified":"2010-02-19T09:40:38","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T14:40:38","slug":"the-struggle-for-market-dominance-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=4788","title":{"rendered":"The Struggle for Market Dominance Begins&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks <strong><a title=\"Jorgen's World\" href=\"http:\/\/jorgensworld.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_self\">Jorgen<\/a><\/strong> for dropping off this <strong><a title=\"BusinessWeek\" href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/news\/2010-02-16\/amazon-e-book-market-share-to-fall-as-industry-grows-update1-.html\" target=\"_self\">link<\/a><\/strong> to a<strong><em> Business Week<\/em><\/strong> story that predicts the shape of things to come for <strong>Amazon.com<\/strong>. According to the article analysts from <em>Credit Suisse Group AG<\/em> see Amazon&#8217;s market share of eBook sales slide from <strong>90 percent<\/strong> in <strong>2009<\/strong> to<strong> 72 percent<\/strong> in the coming year.<\/p>\n<p>While you read the specifics in the article try to remember it&#8217;s a &#8216;prediction&#8217; determined by analyzing a wide spectrum of data derived from\u00c2\u00a0very new things: eBooks, new\u00c2\u00a0eBook Readers, new versions of old eBook Readers,\u00c2\u00a0the habits and preferences of flesh and blood eBook readers, DRM, non-DRM, eBook Piracy, \u00c2\u00a0etc. and the impact of those many factors on a very old and entrenched cultural entertainment form.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>With\u00c2\u00a0new, previously unknown\u00c2\u00a0variables will come wide and unpredictable variation in results.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, Amazon may be able to hang onto its market share yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks Jorgen for dropping off this link to a Business Week story that predicts the shape of things to come for Amazon.com. According to the article analysts from Credit Suisse Group AG see Amazon&#8217;s market share of eBook sales slide from 90 percent in 2009 to 72 percent in the coming year. While you read &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=4788\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,5,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4788"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4788"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4803,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4788\/revisions\/4803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}