[ejp]

I think the real meat of the article comes from the linked article in the middle:

> AAP Reports Own Shrinking Market Share, Media Mistakes It for Flat US Ebook Market [1]

Aside from that, this is pretty badly written and

  *overuses* *emphasis* *poorly*.

[1] http://authorearnings.com/report/september-2015-author-earni...

[jobu]

Digging even further, that authorsearnings.com article links to a WSJ article titled "E-Book Sales Fall After New Amazon Contracts" - https://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en#hl=en&q=E-Book+Sales+Fall... (google link to get past the stupid WSJ signup page)

The contract negotiations with Amazon were supposedly about price control for publishers, but combined with the way they're spinning new E-Book numbers it appears that they actually want E-Books to fail.