![]() As such, I suspect that newspapers and magazines will also do very well on the iPad over the next few years and whilst iPad and Kindle will never kill the paper market, they sure as hell seem to be making a worthwhile dent in it. The iPad's not a perfect reader, by any means, but i also don't think it's a bad one. Certainly the sales I achieved via the iBookstore and the graph (assuming that by 'tablet' they mean iPad and not Kindle - where sales have also been very strong) seems to be blowing the "iPad will never make a competitive book reader" argument out of the water. ![]() It has barely left the top ten in Mysteries and Thrillers in the UK but until I saw the figures I had no idea whether that represented 50 books sold or 5000. I got my last quarter's sales figures from Apple recently and they were, quite honestly, staggering. As I writer I (predictably) focused on the book sales angle of the graph which, at 54% of 63% of approximately 4m iPads, offers extrapolated figures of approximately 1.36m book sales, and that's if everyone just bought one book from the iBookstore.
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