Knopf announced that Stieg Larsson’s Millenium trilogy has sold more than 1 million e-book copies, according to the AP. THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, in particular, is doing extremely well, selling more than 500,000 copies in all digital formats as well as being the all-time top selling Kindle book (Kathryn Stockett’s THE HELP is at #2.) “We are witnessing record-breaking sales for THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO in trade and mass market paperback as well as in audio, so it is not surprising that this trend is being mirrored with e-books,” Knopf spokesman Paul Bogaards told the AP […]
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eNews: Another Monster Quarter from Apple; More Companies Want in on Tablets; and More
Apple posted more big gains in its third quarter report, with revenue jumping 61% to $15.7 billion. The numbers surpassed Wall Street expectations and shrugging off recent questions about antenna problems related to the iPhone 4, released just three days before the end of Q3. IPhone sales totaled 8.4 million units during the quarter, while Apple also sold 3.27 million iPads, in line with analyst predictions. For the fourth quarter, Apple said it expects revenue of $18 billion and earnings of $3.44 per share.Release In other tablet device news, Lenovo says its Android-based LePad tablet will be released by the […]
Amazon Inches Closer to Releasing Kindle Stats That Actually Mean Something
In advance of Thursday’s second quarter earnings report, Amazon tries to drum up extra attention by releasing some “statistics” – since as always, the company will never flat-out tell the public exactly how many e-books or devices they’ve sold. This time, however, the numbers they tout actually inch a little closer to real, live, hard data. So let’s start with the data: jumping on last week’s announcement that James Patterson had sold 1.14 million e-books to date worldwide, Amazon says Kindle books account for 867,881 of those sales. (Of course, with print sales totalling more than 205 million copies, that […]
Now, About that Amazon Earnings Preview
Amazon has a lot to live up to when it reports those Q2 numbers on Thursday: over the last 4 quarters, the company’s reported eps exceeded the market’s consensus estimates by margins in the range of 2.24% and 37.2%. Maybe that’s why investors seem to be just a little more cautious with their expectations this time around, as iStockAnalyst reports, and why Barron’s says “Morgan Stanley’s derivatives strategists are advising clients to bullishly trade ahead of [the earnings report]”. Q2 estimates now range “from a low of $0.44 to a high of $0.76 per share, compared to a consensus estimate […]
eNews: Penguin’s Amplified Editions; Scribd Lawsuit Dropped; and More
Penguin and Starz Entertainment have collaborated on an “Amplified Edition” of Ken Follett’s PILLARS OF THE EARTH, featuring extensive video and audio clips, to tie in with the 8-part 8-hour miniseries that debuts this Friday. The app will be available on the iPad and iPhone, and will be updated on a weekly basis with new scenes and text-embedded video clips from the TV mini-series as each episode airs.AP PW (with video) A lawsuit waged by children’s book writer Elaine Scott against Scribd alleging the site’s copyright filtering technology is itself a form of copyright infringement has been dropped, after Scott […]
Briefs: LAT on ‘Future of Reading’; New Nook Gets FCC Approval; Palin Biography for Tweens Delayed; and More
Paperwork for a new edition of the Nook, codenamed Bravo Delta and CR Nook, has shown up on the FCC website (with specs and pictures withheld)The Digital Reader A front-page LAT feature hits many of the same notes on the intersection of reading, technology and digital books as did an ongoing series in the NYT last year, with the usual point-counterpoint between those who worry about people not reading enough and those who are excited by technological possibilities. LAT Zondervan is delaying publication of a Sarah Palin biography for young readers after deciding that October was not an “optimal time” […]