Interesting. This is similar to the traffic pattern reported by the ebookstores reported a couple weeks ago. From the press release: Wattpad is reporting a record December, seeing a 20 percent growth over November’s traffic and 300 percent more visitors when compared to the previous year. This reading spike resulted in many novels crossing the [...]
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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) [...]
Guinness World Records iPad app to launch on Thursday (video)
December 14th, 2010 · No Comments · ipad app, video
I just heard on Twitter that the long anticipated iPad app from Guinness World Records will be available in iTunes this week for £2.99 (UK) and $4.99 (USA). Unlike the Kindle Edition I showed you a few days ago, the iPad app will be a real app. GWR (and their developer) put a lot of [...]
E-ink set new income record in September
October 11th, 2010 · 2 Comments · hardware news
E-ink just posted their income for September. The total revenue was NT$2,118.88, which is up about a 3rd from August and up 42% from last September. EIH’s consolidated revenues totaled NT$2.12 billion (US$68.97 million) in September. Consolidated revenues for the third quarter totaled NT$5.27 billion, up about 2% compared to the second quarter. Consolidated revenues [...]
Patterson breaks ebook record – sells 1.1m copies
July 7th, 2010 · No Comments · press release
From the press release: Hachette Book Group announced today that #1 bestselling author James Patterson has broken yet another record—this time with tremendous ebook sales. To date, Patterson has sold 1,141,273 ebook units, making him the first novelist ever to surpass the 1,000,000 mark. Patterson is once again at the helm of an important game-changing [...]
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