Do you recall how the iPad was supposed to kill off e-readers? It looks like that might be happening in China. E-reader sales are down 7% in Q1 2011 against last year, and the total sold is estimated to be around 282 thousand. What’s curious about this is that my source blames the iPad. Apple [...]
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US ebook sales set new high in January
March 17th, 2011 · No Comments · Uncategorized
The AAP have released their end of year statistics for the US book market. Note that these numbers only reflect the US market, and don’t include all publishers and retailers. Ebook sales hit a record high of $69.9 million USD, which is an increase of about $20 million over December ebook sales, and well over [...]
Borders closing sales are ahead of schedule
March 8th, 2011 · 4 Comments · Uncategorized
Borders appear to be dying faster than expected. Mike Cane first noticed this on Saturday, and yesterday I read this about the closing sales: The liquidators have reported that store closing sales are outpacing their expectations, with many of these stores moving to 40% off within the last few days. These locations have been incredibly [...]
O’Reilly report ebooks 88% of sales
February 24th, 2011 · 2 Comments · ebookstore news
O’Reilly have been running a series of posts lately on their blog about the state of the computer book market, and yesterday they wrapped up the series with some sales figures. Yep, 88% of unit sales came from ebooks in 2010, and 79% of income ($). The rest of the series is worth reading, and [...]
US Ebook sales up in December
February 16th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized
The AAP have released the sales figrues for the US book amrket for 2010, as well as specific data on Sales in December2010. Sales in November were around $47 million, so the small difference between November and December matches last year’s pattern, which saw sales of $18.3m and $18.7m in November and December, respectively. E-books [...]
Texas blinked – Amazon won’t be collecting sales tax after all
February 14th, 2011 · 17 Comments · ebookstore news, opinion
Texas Gov. Rick Perry told The Washington Examiner on Friday that Amazon won’t have to collect sales tax for the state of Texas; he will ask the state legislature to clarify the legal issue. This is only the latest part of an ongoing saga. Various states have been trying to get Amazon to collect sales [...]
Bol.com ebook sales tripled in 2010
February 1st, 2011 · No Comments · ebookstore news
The Dutch web retailer Bol.com announced today that 318 million euros worth of goods in 2010, an increase of 40 million euros. According to the press release, they sold 3 times as many ebooks in 2010 as they did in 2009. I know that sounds impressive, but don’t get too excited. Bol.com only started selling [...]
Libre Digital to use MediaMorph to track digital sales
January 25th, 2011 · No Comments · press release
From the press release: At the Digital Book World Conference & Expo, LibreDigital, Inc and Mediamorph, Inc. today announced a strategic partnership to enable book publishers to more effectively manage their digital business and monetization of digital products.
Tags:digital·libre·mediamorph·sales·track
Ebook sales up slightly in November
January 14th, 2011 · 2 Comments · ebook sales
Today the AAP released the sales figures for November 2010. As always, these numbers only reflect the US market and do not cover all publishers and ebook sellers. Also, these are wholesale numbers, not retail. Ebook sales in November totaled $46.6m, which was approximately 15% increase over October. That ‘s a pretty decent jump considering [...]
Is anyone surprised by the drop in magazine app sales?
December 29th, 2010 · 7 Comments · ebookstore news
I’m not. Everyone’s writing about an article on WWD Media blog about the declining sales of iPad magazine apps. I’m not sure why this is news; we’ve already seen this happen. Many magazines that are available on the iPad, such as Esquire, People and The New Yorker, have not posted their digital single-issue sales to [...]
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