electronic-books-real-life-data.html

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url: /2010/02/electronic-books-real-life-data.html
title: "Electronic books: real-life data"
date: "2010-02-28T18:15:00.003+01:00"
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<p>I had my yearly “paperwork day” today. As part of that ordeal I was sorting the Cisco Press book sales reports and stumbled across e-book data for my MPLS VPN books. I can’t tell you how well the Safari access is doing (electronic subscriptions are bundled with numerous totally unrelated items into the “Others” category), but the reports have separate line items for <em>PDF</em> and <em>Mobile</em> (I assume that’s Kindle) edition. The sales of these editions are negligible compared to the “regular” sales. </p>
<p>Obviously even the highly technical audience is not interested in electronic books (or <a href="https://blog.ipspace.net/2010/01/rant-long-term-consequences-of-book.html">someone bought a single PDF copy that’s now enjoyed by the whole Internet</a>) ... or you feel (like I do) that the reference books belong on the bookshelf.</p>