huh – Three Percent /College/translation/threepercent a resource for international literature at the University of Rochester Mon, 16 Apr 2018 17:24:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Now That's Some Math I Can Get On Board With /College/translation/threepercent/2009/02/10/now-thats-some-math-i-can-get-on-board-with/ /College/translation/threepercent/2009/02/10/now-thats-some-math-i-can-get-on-board-with/#respond Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:01:14 +0000 http://www.wdev.rochester.edu/College/translation/threepercent-dev/2009/02/10/now-thats-some-math-i-can-get-on-board-with/ 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 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.

Which, as CNN 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.”

Well, thankfully followed up on this:

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.”

That’s an awful big difference . . . Really makes me wonder about that 500,000 unit claim that’s been floating around . . .

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