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http://www.tuaw.com/2010/10/14/t ... ch-one-big-failure/
The iBookstore six months after launch: One big failure
The Kindle store currently advertises that they have over 700,000 books, magazines, and blogs available for download. Apple hasn't released statistics on the number of currently available books, so an accurate comparison isn't easy to make, but it's a safe bet to say that once you eliminate the ability to load .pdf files, the availability of e-books from the iBookstore pales. At launch, it was reported that the iBookstore contained somewhere between 46,000 and 60,000 titles, 30,000 of which came from the Project Gutenberg library of free out-of-copyright books. However, since these are also available on the Kindle, we can reduce both sides of the equation by 30,000. This brings the number of titles at launch for the iBook to a generous 30,000. That's a big difference, but outside of raw numbers, there are many factors constraining a massive increase in iBookstore sales.
70万:3万,苹果的书只有亚马逊的二十分之一,就算这个数据有问题,也不会太离谱。。。
另一个文章里面这样说:
“但是iBooks也有几个重大的不足。最大的缺点在于,因为推出时间仅5个月,它的书籍数量小于其竞争对手,只有13万册书,而 Kindle有70万册,Nook有大约100万册。举个例子,瑞典作家拉森(Stieg Larsson)的热门神秘小说系列在iBooks目录里就没有。并且iBooks不提供任何期刊杂志。”
网络书店在我看来就是个零和游戏,胜者大获全胜,败者一无所有。。。当在书店找不到书的时候,读者只会向一个地方聚集,就是那个永远找得到书的地方。而且我本身就是个喜欢读书的人。你知道书籍有一种有别于其他商品的特性,就是不可替代性,你去买食物,面包卖光了,老板给你推荐馒头,你也会买;但是书呢,你去买《好兵帅克历险记》,老板推荐《汤姆索亚历险记》,你会不会买,十有八九不会。。。而且一本书越是买不到你还就是越想买到。。。而且读书的人甚至对出版社有癖好,《魔戒》译林版是众所周知的垃圾,我非朱学恒版本不买。。。没有,对不起,我只有去下个书店试运气,却不会将就。。。
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[ 本帖最后由 chenyi1976 于 2010-10-21 15:35 编辑 ] |
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