(1) The one-billion-distributed figure reflect the number of copies rather than titles, and (2) alliances with other companies are involved—in this case, Lenovo, Gateway and Apple. More from VitalSource‘s Will Moore. Thanks, Will.
VitalSource explains how 1B .vbk-format books have been distributed
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A sad tale of Amazon monetization: eReaderIQ and the affiliate program
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This gets me to wonder how many distributed ebooks Adobe might lay claim to. Every PC for years has come with pdf manuals in lieue of printed ones. Most every peripheral does, too.