Laura Owen at PaidContent obtains some general statistics on Amazon Kindle sales over the past 14 months, which ratify our argument that–while interesting–both the form and this proprietary store are vastly overcovered. In 14 months, Amazon says sales are “over two million” units. With prices ranging from one to three dollars, that comprises gross sales of roughly $4 million, across 165 titles. The six bestselling Kindle Singles titles are in fact all non-exclusive works from established authors: Lee Child, Stephen King, David Baldacci, Dean Koontz. (Together they are likely to comprise over a quarter of those two million units by […]
