Stevie boy has passed along a piece of ebook info at the iPad launch today. He’s reported that over 1oo million ebooks have been downloaded from iBooks. Of course, “100 million downloads” refers to the number of downloads, not sales. Based on the several people I’ve talked to, ebook sales in iBooks are not nearly [...]
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Apple’s App Stores hit 1b downloads
January 22nd, 2011 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Apple have been running a counter on their homepage, and early this morning it clocked 10 billion. That’s 10 BILLION with a b iPhone, iPad, and OSX apps downloaded from the various app stores. Impressive, no?As I recall, the last major milestone was 3 billion downloads in January 2010, and before that was 1 billion [...]
comiXology celebrate 1 million app downloads, 5k titles in ebookstore
December 29th, 2010 · No Comments · press release
From the press release: New York, NY, January 3rd, 2011 – comiXology, the leading digital comic book provider, today announced it is kick starting the New Year with more than 5,000 digital comics available on its platform. The expansion of its library follows a banner year in 2010 with comic book fans everywhere making it [...]
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Dictionary.com Marks 20 Million Downloads With Next-Gen Mobile Dictionary
December 14th, 2010 · No Comments · press release
From the press release: Today Dictionary.com (www.dictionary.com), the leading online and mobile dictionary, announced that its mobile products have exceeded *20 million downloads, making it the world’s most downloaded dictionary across iPhone, iPad, Android and BlackBerry platforms.
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PDFs now make up only half of ebook downloads at O’Reilly
October 2nd, 2010 · 3 Comments · ebookstore news
Andrew Savikas posted this neat graphic yesterday. It shows a week by week track of downloads, sorted by format. It doesn’t show the total number of downloads, only the percentage of the whole.
iTunes U hits 300m downloads
August 24th, 2010 · No Comments · press release
TBH, this is the first that I’ve heard of iTunes U. At first it sounded like a neat idea, but now that I’ve gotten into it it’s really just another source of podcasts. Still, 300m downloads is impressive. From the press release:
KiwiTech announce 1m downloads
July 14th, 2010 · No Comments · press release
From the press release: KiwiTech said its collection of ebook apps has reached the one million download mark. Rakesh Gupta, KiwiTech’s chief executive officer, said the milestone is a significant one because it shows that more people see the benefits of downloading their favorite titles to smartphones and other wireless devices. KiwiTech has more than [...]
Feedbooks can now tell you who downloads your ebooks
June 1st, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Hadrien Gardeur of Feedbooks just tweeted: Analytics for self-pub books now available ! Click on analytics on the upper-right corner on the page of your book. This new service is only available to the person who uploaded the ebook. But what exactly is Hadrien offering here, you ask? He’s letting book uploaders see a report [...]
Sony Ebookstore announces 10millionth downloads
May 7th, 2010 · No Comments · ebookstore news
From the press release: Enabling a revolution in digital reading, Sony today announced that as of May 5, book lovers and eBookworms have downloaded more than 10 million books from the Reader™ Store. This does not include the millions of books downloaded from other sources such Google Books and public libraries, or through other ebookstores [...]
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Feedbooks, Project Gutenberg have more downloads than iBookstore
May 3rd, 2010 · No Comments · Apple, ebookstore news
So Apple trumpeted the 1.5m downloads in a press release this morning. I’m sure that seems like a huge number, but let’s put it in perspective. Hadrien Gardeur of Feedbooks tweeted this morning: Apple distributed 1,5 million ebooks in April. Feedbooks distributed 2,6 million ebooks in the same period. Then I went looking for more [...]
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