Comments on: Cool graphic of the ebook market http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/cool-graphic-of-the-ebook-market/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:55:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Steve Jordan http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/cool-graphic-of-the-ebook-market/comment-page-1/#comment-1145308 Steve Jordan Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:43:36 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/?p=28936#comment-1145308 Interesting... but nowhere near the entire "universe." As they left out most of the independent e-book sources, those similar to MobiPocket and Fictionwise, I'd say the graphic is very incomplete. And what about the Big Pubs that have gone e-book and sell independently... where's Penguin, Tor, or Baen, or Harlequin? These transform the graphic because they provide additional inputs into almost every device on the board, and really flesh out others: For instance, the present map shows exactly one arrow into Windows Mobile, when in fact WM devices can buy e-books from dozens of big sellers and untold numbers of indie sellers. This is more of a map showing a number of gas giants, while missing out on the rest of a very big solar system... Interesting… but nowhere near the entire “universe.” As they left out most of the independent e-book sources, those similar to MobiPocket and Fictionwise, I’d say the graphic is very incomplete. And what about the Big Pubs that have gone e-book and sell independently… where’s Penguin, Tor, or Baen, or Harlequin? These transform the graphic because they provide additional inputs into almost every device on the board, and really flesh out others: For instance, the present map shows exactly one arrow into Windows Mobile, when in fact WM devices can buy e-books from dozens of big sellers and untold numbers of indie sellers.

This is more of a map showing a number of gas giants, while missing out on the rest of a very big solar system…

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