A couple days ago the UK Publisher’s Association released some data on ebook and e-reader sales over Christmas. A full 7% of respondents said that they got an e-reader for Christmas 2010. Now, assuming the UK population adult is around 50 million, that means somewhere around 3.5 million e-readers were sold over Christmas. It’s a [...]
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3.5 million Brits received an e-reader for Christmas
February 10th, 2011 · 1 Comment · ebookstore news
Pocketbook Germany sold 10k e-readers during the Christmas season
January 31st, 2011 · 7 Comments · hardware news
Following on the heels of the Fnac report on Saturday, Johannes of lesen.net reported that Pocketbook sold nearly 10, 000 e-readers in Germany during the past 2 months of 2010. Yikes. That’s not much, considering that Pocketbook have said they have a strong position in Europe.
Overdrive saw record traffic over Christmas
December 30th, 2010 · No Comments · ebookstore news
Perhaps that’s why I’ve heard reports that their servers were running slow on the day after Christmas. Anyway, Overdrive have posted some traffic stats for Christmas weekend. This was the first time ever tjat ebook traffic surpassed audiobook. To show you what happened in one month, we’ve compared usage from Nov. 26-28 (around US Thanksgiving) [...]
Amazon K2, Sharper Image Literati show up in after Christmas clearance sales
December 28th, 2010 · 6 Comments · hardware news
I came across a couple after Christmas sales today. I think one is worth getting, but not the other. Amazon are once again selling the refurbished K2. The current list price is $110. It comes with the standard 1 year warranty and I’m expecting them to sell out fast. Amazon Best Buy have put the [...]
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Kobo, Borders had server problems over Christmas
December 28th, 2010 · No Comments · ebookstore news
Apparently B&N weren’t the only one who forgot to plan ahead. Yesterday, a reader tipped me to the server issues that Borders had had over Christmas. This reader was still having trouble 2 days later, sadly.
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