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This means Apple, out of nowhere, could soon become the #1 or #2 book retailer in the world by next year. Apple has sold 3M iPads, roughly the same as the Kindle - http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/techbeat/archives/201...

There will probably be around 2:1 iPads to Kindles and Nooks by the end of the year. They are doing what they did with music with books.

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But also remember that many people don't own kindles, but buy books & use the software on other devices -- quite often Apple devices.

For now anyways. I doubt many people with iPads will buy Kindles in the future and Apple's eReader will scale far beyond the kindle because it offers so much more. It will be interesting to see what happens when the Android tablets roll out.

did you actually comprehend what lallysingh was saying?

I'll summarize - many people who are buying kindle books are not using amazon hardware.

A year from now there will be 2-3 times as many iPads in circulation as there are Kindles. 2 years, way more. Most of these people obviously will not have prior Kindle accounts and they will buy via iBooks rather than a third party app. The size of the pie is increasing, Kindle's slice can't keep pace.

I have my doubts on people preferring iBooks. Amazon.com is a much better place to shop, and as long as I have any other type of machine, the kindle books are more flexible for me.

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