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Re:DOJ Calls for Apple to End Book Deals, Link to Rival Book... by MBCook on Friday August 02, 2013 @11:37PM (#6151001)
Really? They both play this kind of stuff close to the chest. As far as I know Amazon has never released sales numbers for the Kindles, at least Apple tells us that.

Anecdotally I use Kindle ecosystem, as do some of my friends and family. I don't know anyone who uses iBooks, so that's probably skewing my viewpoint.

I guess they did at least make a name for themselves with textbooks, at a minimum.

EDIT: According to All Things Digital, during the trial one of Apple's people estimated their market share at 20% [1]. That's way higher than I would have guessed.

[1] - http://allthingsd.com/20130613/apples-e-book-market-share-is...

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Re:DOJ Calls for Apple to End Book Deals, Link to Rival Book... by AsymetricCom on Saturday August 03, 2013 @11:25PM (#6154509)
This just goes to show you the power Apple has over the market with their platform. They enter a new market and now they own 20% of it and are signing price fixing deals with every publisher a year later.
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