Apple reported on Tuesday that the company sold 7.33 million iPads in the quarter ending December 25, 2010. Separately, Barclays analyst Doug Anmuth has somehow conjured an estimate that Amazon sold 7.1 million Kindle devices in 2010 and will sell 12.3 million devices in 2011, “though our numbers may still be conservative.” Or they could be wrong. Going by the services that monitor the actual manufacturing and shipment of ereader components and devices (including one that we cited yesterday), those numbers are high and do not square with the manufacturer data. Anmuth estimates that Kindle revenues from devices and electronic content […]
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Third Quarter US eReader Shipments Estimated At 2 Million Units
IDC released their quarterly Media Tablet and eReader Tracker, estimating device shipments around the world, for the third quarter of 2010. They tabulate 2.7 million ereaders shipped to vendors in period, with the US comprising three-quarters of the market, or 2.025 million units. Their tablet count remains even higher, at 4.8 million units, up from 3.3 million units in the second quarter, with Apple still holding about 90 percent of that market. IDC says that Amazon comprised 1.1 million of those ereader units (a 41.5 percent market share worldwide), with Pandigital just barely taking second place with its line (which […]
BISG E-Book ISBN Survey Shows Just How Much More Work Needs To Be Done
Last week the Book Industry Study Group held a meeting to review findings of a study conducted by Michael Cairns of Information Media Partners on how ISBNs are deployed with respect to e-books – or more specifically, how there is nowhere near a consistent standard or best practice for doing so. The full study will be available in a few weeks but Cairns has made the executive summary available at his blog Personanondata. Thanks to the proliferation of e-book formats and Amazon’s insistence on its own proprietary format, ASIN, the study finds that “the ISBN agency is virtually irrelevant to […]
With Lower Print Sales, AAP eBook Stats Comprise 9.3 Percent of November Sales
November ebook sales among the 12 publishers reporting to the AAP rose again, to $46.6 million, a $5.9 million gain over October, comprising $392 million for the monitored 11 months in 2010. eBooks accounted for 9.3 percent of all trade sales for the month (when you use proper math). That’s substantially higher than in October–mostly because net trade print sales were far lower in November ($452 million, versus $528 million in October). It is the highest single month of ebook sales so far in the AAP’s monitoring.
More on Google’s eBook Acquisition
There are a lot of stories out there with wild speculation about how Google might use the newly-acquired eBook Technologies to expand their ebook program. This piece at Kindle Review provides some good factual detail on ETI’s assets, including their existing ereader devices, and their patents (for such systems as advertisements in ebooks). Separately, a Google spokesperson provided us with a slightly expanded explanatory statement: “We believe that ETI can help us provide users with a richer digital reading experience on tablets and other emerging hand-held devices. For example, ETI’s Pub renderer supports pagination of complex layouts. We are excited […]
A New Survey Shows A Widening Generational Gap of Mystery Readers
Sisters in Crime, in conjunction with Bowker PubTrack, released the results of a survey of 1,056 mystery readers conducted in September 2010 on their book-buying habits. And while many of the results will not be a surprise both to those in the industry and in the mystery community, what struck me in particular is the gap between readers over and under the age of 40, and how current acquisitions may appeal more to the younger group while it neglects, for good or for ill, older readers. Generally, the majority of mystery/crime fiction buyers tend to be women over the age […]