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Where does it say they aren't counting the free ones? Tim Send a noteboard - 31/01/2011 08:10:23 AM
When you buy one it comes up as a transaction with price £0.00. While I agree that technically if there's no price, there's no sale, I very much doubt that news outlets are conscientious enough to make sure they don't accidentally (or even accidentally-on-purpose) change "115 e-books were downloaded for every 100 books sold" to "115 e-books were sold for every book sold".

Of course, to answer this we'd need to see Amazon's original figures...
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Kindle books overtake paperbacks Kel - 27/01/2011 11:21:07 PM 1626 Views
Any idea about how well the Nook Books are doing? *NM* j-whitt987 - 28/01/2011 12:25:53 AM 682 Views
No idea. Kel - 28/01/2011 12:36:06 AM 1258 Views
Barnes & Noble also said it now sells more digital books than physical books on its Web site. everynametaken - 28/01/2011 04:47:15 AM 1361 Views
Terrible news. I may be a fogey who hates change, but gosh darnit, I really hate this change. *NM* lord-of-shadow - 28/01/2011 03:17:29 AM 656 Views
Indeed. *NM* Camilla - 28/01/2011 10:59:26 AM 607 Views
I agree. *NM* Bergioyn - 02/02/2011 10:47:39 PM 786 Views
It is really quite spectacular considering we were debating... everynametaken - 28/01/2011 04:49:22 AM 1225 Views
It's interesting. Rebekah - 28/01/2011 08:46:24 AM 1293 Views
Re: It's interesting. Camilla - 28/01/2011 11:00:11 AM 1255 Views
Hmm snoopcester - 28/01/2011 12:42:39 PM 1300 Views
I think it's completely unsurprising that an online bookseller would sell more ebooks. Rebekah - 28/01/2011 10:05:10 PM 1225 Views
No! ? - 29/01/2011 05:46:00 PM 1335 Views
Re: No! Callia - 31/01/2011 06:35:07 AM 1326 Views
You can wrap your Kindle in clingfilm (gladwrap) or a transparent plastic bag. *NM* Tim - 31/01/2011 12:34:00 PM 657 Views
Of course Amazon is selling more e-books than printed books. They're the main e-book seller. Tim - 30/01/2011 11:39:12 AM 1237 Views
the free books don't count as a sale Deadsy - 31/01/2011 08:01:39 AM 1236 Views
Where does it say they aren't counting the free ones? Tim - 31/01/2011 08:10:23 AM 1282 Views
I guess you're assuming it does and I'm assuming it doesn't. Deadsy - 31/01/2011 08:14:52 AM 1315 Views
When you buy one of the free books it does have a price on the page. Rebekah - 31/01/2011 08:38:56 AM 1180 Views
According to the Amazon press release, free books are excluded - snoopcester - 31/01/2011 12:01:48 PM 1382 Views
So that actually means printed books outsold e-books by 20% Tim - 31/01/2011 12:27:37 PM 1231 Views
what? &#$$#! *NM* Yunalesca - 31/01/2011 08:28:25 PM 784 Views
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