Sony announced that they have sold 10 million ebook downloads (on top of any free downloads) since they opened for business in 2006. They also announced their all-time top 10 sellers: 1. The Lost Symbol, by Dan Brown2. I, Alex Cross, by James Patterson3. Breaking Dawn, by Stephenie Meyer4. Eclipse, by Stephenie Meyer5. The Help, by Kathryn Stockett6. Twilight, by Stephenie Meyer7. New Moon, by Stephenie Meyer8. The Lovely Bones, by Alice Sebold9. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larsson10. The Last Song, by Nicholas SparksRelease Apple has announced the launch of the iPad in Australia, Canada, France, […]
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Publishers Report Strong Initial Sales and Gaining at iBookstore
It was just a year ago that Amazon surprised publishing executives when previewing the SuperKindle by announcing that Kindle sales had spiked to “35 percent of books where we have Kindle editions.” With this year’s launch of the iPad and Apple’s iBookstore, however, everyone has been quite focused on assessing the impact of this new entrant in the accelerating overall ebook market. Apple’s announced numbers of over one million devices and 1.5 million ebooks downloaded so far sound strong, albeit vague. On the device level, working from reasonable postulations you can view the iPad launch as boosting the market for […]
With or Without You, Your Google Editions Will Have Unique ISBNs
Google has finally made public their decision on identifiers for products sold through Google Editions. They will use the industry-standard ISBN–as opposed to vendors like Amazon, who assign their own unique ASINs to Kindle books. Google hopes that publishers will assign unique ISBNs to their Google Editions products on their own, but if they don’t, Google will assign numbers themselves in an agreement announced today with US ISBN agency Bowker. Google’s Tom Turvey says in the announcement “this decision was driven by the book industry’s strong reliance on the ISBN along with our partner-centric business and distribution models. We look […]
Barnes & Noble Launches HP Store
BN’s online ebookstore for Hewlett-Packard launched today at hp.bn.com. HP announced a new line of computers today, and will link to the store from their PCs.
Not the News: Little Change In Google Editions Launch Date
The WSJ got wide pick-up for revealing something already announced: “Google will begin selling digital books as early as late June or July, a company representative [Chris Palma] said Tuesday” at a BISG event. Just as Google’s Roland Lange said at a conference in early March that the service would launch…in June.WSJ
Amazon Pays Referrals on Kindle Books; As iPad Soars, Two Other Tablets Are Spiked
Amazon told the company’s “associates” by e-mail that as of May 1 they are paying “advertising fees” (their name for referral commissions) on Kindle book sales (and magazine, newspaper and blog subscriptions) for the first time since the launch of the store. Those fees range from 4 percent to 8.5 percent. At the same, they are reducing the fees paid on Kindle device sales to the same range of 4 percent to 8.5 percent. In an interesting but unconfirmed side-effect, it looks as if Amazon has restored Kindle data to their web services program as part of the new sales […]