Have you ever wondered what they biggest gripes about the Kindle Fire and iPad 2 are? At least one was a surprise to me. The tech support site FixYa has been tracking reported issues, and yesterday they released a report.
They only covered the top 5 complaints for the 2 hot gadgets, and they’re both surprising and expected. [Read more →]
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Canada’s National Reading Campaign has just released the results of a recent market survey. This is the second annual survey, and it is the first that tracks ebooks. The survey covers just the last week in January and it covers books sold by Indigo, Amazon, and other national chains, as well as 260 indies.
English language book sales in general were up 4% from last year, and French language print book sales also increased by 35% (due to more stores reporting).
But it’s the ebook news that I’m most interested in. If the stats are to be believed, ebooks are now just under 10% of the English language book market in Canada. [Read more →]
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The market research firm iSuppli released their estimates for the 2011 global tablet market today. apple is still on top, with Samsung distant second and Amazon a not surprising third. Here are the highlights:
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Bowker released some results of a survey earlier today, and the data raised some questions about the growth of the UK ebook market. The key takeaways are:
What’s really interesting about the data is that I was under the impression that the UK ebook market grew last year by some noticeable amount. But if you look at the numbers above, it shrank. Consumers are reporting that they spent less. They’re buying a very slightly larger number of ebooks than before, but they’re spending less.
I’m going to hold out for more data before I jump to any conclusions. Bowker plans to release the rest of the results at their conference in London in March, and once that data is in hand then I will try to figure it out.
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Lagardere, the parent company of Hachette, released their quarterly financial statement and the news was not good. Revenue was down for most parts of Lagardere, and that includes a slight dip in the net income for the publishing division.
Lagardere Publishing saw a 6% drop from last year, with the one bright spot being the US, where Hachette revenue increased by 12%. At the end of December, ebooks were pegged at 10% of revenue in the UK, and 20% in the US.
Yes, US revenues increased overall, but ebook sales only increased at the same rate. What I find interesting is that past reports from Hachette have pegged ebooks at 20% and 22% of US revenues. That’s a plateau, and the US market is still growing.
In fact, we’re seeing some smaller publishers reporting meteoric growth in ebook sales. This raises the question of why Hachette isn’t seeing the same growth as everyone else.
Ideas?
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Changewave has just released the results of survey of 2,607 American consumers, and the results suggest that the Kindle Fire is going to have positive effect on Amazon’s bottom line.
Here are the key takeaways:
That first detail is definitely the most important, but it was buried in the results. 6% of the survey group own Kindle Fire, and it was only on the market for 2 months when this survey was conducted. We haven’t seen numbers like that since the iPad. The iPad actually had better numbers, but still, the 6% is impressive.
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Yesterday Amazon released their year end financial statements, and the news was both good (sales were up) and bad (profits were down). But one notable absence from the news report was ny mention of ebook sales. Yes, Amazon said that they sold million so of Kindles, but how many ebooks?
Well, The Bookseller followed up on this and they have some stats for the UK Kindle Store, and the news is mixed.
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It’s been just over 2 months since the Kindle Fire shipped, and it has already turned the world upside down.
The market research firm Flurry released some startling stats today. They’re following up on their news about the spike in new Android and iOS gadgets over Christmas.
According to their tracking data, the Kindle now accounts for 36% of all Android tablet activity in January. That’s more than any other tablet, including the Samsung Galaxy Tab.
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The Pew Research Center released some fascinating numbers this morning. A lot of us bought ereaders and tablets this past holiday season, so much so that you’d think the recession was over.
The PRC ran a couple market surveys, first in December and then in January. They found that the number of Americans who said that they had a new tablet or ereader nearly doubled, with both tablet owners and ereader owners going from 10% to 19%. This is based on polls of around 3 thousand (before) and 2 thousand (after) US consumers.
But how many are actually being used? If you factor in the survey recently conducted by MyVoucherCodes.co.uk, not too bloody many.
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The ebook market continues to see explosive growth in 2011, and now indie publisher Sourcebooks is sharing their good news.
Revenues were up 11% in 2011 over 2012, and a lot of that growth was due to ebooks. Ebook sales increased by a factor of 8 in 2011, and they now account for 28% of Sourcebooks revenue.
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