{"id":2122,"date":"2009-12-06T12:07:14","date_gmt":"2009-12-06T17:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=2122"},"modified":"2021-05-18T20:55:17","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T00:55:17","slug":"kindle-book-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/06\/kindle-book-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"Kindle Book Sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/12\/06\/magazine\/06fob-q4-t.html\">Jeff Bezos<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marco.org\/271290716\">Marco Arment<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/12\/06\/magazine\/06fob-q4-t.html\"><p>For every 100 copies of a physical book we sell, where we have the Kindle edition, we will sell 48 copies of the Kindle edition.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&rsquo;s incredible, but I&rsquo;m not sure that I believe it. Are the numbers skewed by averaging in the free Kindle books or something?<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Bezos (via Marco Arment): For every 100 copies of a physical book we sell, where we have the Kindle edition, we will sell 48 copies of the Kindle edition. That&rsquo;s incredible, but I&rsquo;m not sure that I believe it. Are the numbers skewed by averaging in the free Kindle books or something?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2021-05-19T00:55:20Z","apple_news_api_id":"089e24a6-7189-4a47-a3b8-0fa298f57c4f","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2021-05-19T00:55:20Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/ACJ4kpnGJSkejuA-imPV8Tw","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[101,165],"class_list":["post-2122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-business","tag-kindle"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2123,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2122\/revisions\/2123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}