Amazon E-Book Market Share to Fall as Industry Grows

Amazon will likely see its market share of e-book sales slip to 72 percent this year from 90 percent in 2009 as competition intensifies from Apple’s iPad and Google Editions, Credit Suisse Group AG analysts said. At the same time, Amazon.com, seller of the Kindle e-book reading device, may boost digital book sales by 83 percent this year to $248 million from $135 million last year. By 2015, those...