Also at this morning’s Digital Book World 2011, Google Books product manager Abe Murray presented the first (albeit scant) statistics and user insights into their recently-launched ebooks venture. Their bestseller list so far looks like the same Larsson-heavy list you find elsewhere, and on a category basis, the topselling subjects by volume are romance, biography, thrillers, finance, young adults, sci-fi/fantasy, politics and diet/fitness. Murray said they have well over 1 million apps installed, and “blew past this number within weeks of launch.” They have added 60 resellers since launch, now at 180, indicating that independent booksellers are continuing to enlist […]
