Device update: Analyzing the publishing value chain
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Saved with the link. Notes from 2007 to 2016 are mostly the page's own words, so this is probably an excerpt.
According to vice president and publisher Ana Maria Allessi, this was encouraging news. While I'd agree it is great news for the adoption of ereaders, her exuberance made me wonder. Was this really cause for excitement? At the time of the article, HarperCollins had sold 11,250 electronic and approximately 9,300 hardcovers copies. From a pure numbers game, there was no doubt, as was previously reported by Amazon, electronic books are outselling their hardcover counterparts.