How many books are you selling?

I am trying to gauge sales figures for a few iBooks in their final stages of production. I know the figures can vary greatly, depending on what kind of book you are selling, but I am hoping I can get some rough idea on sales from people.

To: JoeScrivens (and anyone else who cares to answer)
I had the concept of my iBook (waiting 5 weeks now) when the iPad first appeared, and wanted to do the book as an app. I soon found that (a) I did not have the skills to build iOS apps from scratch and (b) it would cost many thousands of dollars to hire someone to build it for me. So I gave up on the app idea. When iBA appeared in January, I got to work, wrote the iBook, submitted, and waited.
I am still intrigued with the app idea, especially after reading what Joe wrote. I have been concerned since day one about how anyone is ever going to find our books, for the reasons that UtrechtDom describes above.
What are the options for producing ibooks as apps now? Is there a simpler way so you don't have become an expert in iOS? Are the people and/or companies that will do it for you for a reasonable fee, especially if you already have it done as an iBook?
Thanks.
Jim.

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It would be interesting to hear numbers and experiences from other users.
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Amazon
Apple
Percent
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360619
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26.98%
Fiction & Literature
20700
227773
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49942
95433
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51.16%
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76608
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49448
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48581
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47718
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39861
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37874
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33643
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17461
1.31%
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Travel & Adventure
21181
11874
0.89%
96.97%
Cookbooks, Food & Wine
8593
0.64%
97.62%
Sports & Outdoors
20909
8443
0.63%
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Lifestyle & Home
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8082
0.60%
98.85%
Humor
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7265
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Comics & Graphic Novels
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0.34%
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Parenting
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3407
0.25%
99.99%
Textbooks
100
0.01%
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1336616
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