{"id":5851,"date":"2010-06-08T09:42:10","date_gmt":"2010-06-08T14:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=5851"},"modified":"2010-06-08T09:42:10","modified_gmt":"2010-06-08T14:42:10","slug":"ibookstores-questionable-sales-numbers-and-the-threat-to-kindle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=5851","title":{"rendered":"iBookstore&#8217;s Questionable Sales Numbers and the threat to Kindle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a title=\"Jorgen's World\" href=\"http:\/\/jorgensworld.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_self\">Jorgen<\/a><\/strong> dropped off a <strong><a title=\"Jobs' Figures Wonky\" href=\"http:\/\/bits.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/06\/07\/why-apples-ibook-numbers-are-meaningless\/?src=busln\" target=\"_self\">link<\/a><\/strong> to this great article in <strong><em>The New York Times<\/em><\/strong> <strong>Technology<\/strong> section that takes issue with\u00c2\u00a0the sales figures quoted by Steve Jobs at the recent iPhone 4 release. Since the iBookstore does not offer titles from the majority of existing small publishers including the world&#8217;s largest <strong>Random House<\/strong>, Jobs&#8217; announcement that iPad accounts for <strong>20 percent<\/strong> of all\u00c2\u00a0eBook sales is little more than smoke and mirrors.<\/p>\n<p>There are some interesting points in the article, however. To me the most promising is the assertion that Amazon has to make a decision and either compete in the full-color multi-function world of <strong>iPad<\/strong> or drop <strong>Kindle&#8217;s<\/strong> price to make an affordable dedicated eBook reading device. Maybe they&#8217;ll follow <strong>Border&#8217;s<\/strong> plan to offer a selection of eBook reading devices to suit the consumer&#8217;s tastes: Good. Better. Best.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jorgen dropped off a link to this great article in The New York Times Technology section that takes issue with\u00c2\u00a0the sales figures quoted by Steve Jobs at the recent iPhone 4 release. Since the iBookstore does not offer titles from the majority of existing small publishers including the world&#8217;s largest Random House, Jobs&#8217; announcement that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=5851\">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":[3,8,12,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5851"}],"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=5851"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5863,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5851\/revisions\/5863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}