The AAP announced their tabulation of sales for October from reporting publishers. In the closely-watched ebook sales category–where the AAP’s monthly number is the only standing statistic we have to go on, the now 20 reporting publishers recorded sales of $72.8 million, down from $80.3 million in August. (Rizzoli is now among those contributing data.) It’s the lowest monthly ebook total recorded since April, and lower as an absolute comparison since the matching results that month came from just 14 publishers. Seasonably sizable shipments of print books and flat month-to-month ebook sales trends left digital books in fourth place, trailing […]
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eBook Sales Register Lower in September
The AAP announced their tabulation of sales for September from reporting publishers. In the closely-watched ebook sales category–where the AAP’s monthly number is the only standing statistic we have to go on, the 18 reporting publishers recorded sales of $80.3 million, down from $88.8 million in August. (Two university presses, Stanford and University of Nebraska, were added to the tabulations starting this month.) With strong fall shipments of printed books, ebook sales were lower than both hardcover and trade paperback adult sales, and comprised 15.7 percent of all recorded trade sales. (As a reminder, the AAP counts religious sales as […]
eNews: Wiley Sues 27 BitTorrent Users Over Piracy; New Funding For Educational App Publisher Mindshare; and More
Last week Wiley filed suit in Manhattan federal court against 27 John Doe defendants who illegally downloaded various FOR DUMMIES titles from Ukraine-based Torrent website demonoid.me on October 18 and 19. The John Does are identified for now only by their IP addresses, all within the state of New York. Wiley claims in the suit that these defendants “are contributing to a problem that threatens the profitability of Wiley. Although Wiley cannot determine at this time the precise amount of revenue that it has lost as a result of peer-to-peer file sharing of its copyrighted works though BitTorrent software, the […]
The WSJ’s New Bestseller Lists
As reported Friday, this weekend the WSJ launched their own ebook bestseller lists, managed by Nielsen BookScan. The inaugural groups–featuring lists of 10 slots each for fiction and nonfiction ebooks, and two combined any-format print and ebook lists–look pretty much like the same data pool already reflected in bestseller tabulations from USA Today and the New York Times. The one notable variant so far is Tom Standage’s A HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN 6 GLASSES, on the list thanks to being featured as the $1.99 Kindle Daily Deal on October 21. That boost was good enough to make it No. […]
AAP eBook Sales Stay At Around 20%
The AAP has caught up on their monthly reports, issuing sales totals for August. eBooks were still the second-largest trade segment, behind adult paperbacks, registering $88.8 million. Per the trend for most of the year, ebooks are still running at about 20 percent of reported trade sales. We’ve straightened out some things that have confused us in the past few months, so we’re going to take a different approach to our explanations and disclaimers this month. Currently, 18 publishers report ebook sales to the AAP; the only company of scale that reports print sales but not ebook sales is WW […]
eNews: Anobii Prepares to Sell eBooks; Freethy Sells 1 Million Self-Published Books; and More
UK-based social book recommendation site Anobii announced that as part of their coming relaunch, they have reached agreements to sell ebooks from more than 10 publishers, including the UK divisions of Penguin, Random House, Harper Collins, Hachette, Bloomsbury, Harlequin and Wiley, along with Pan Macmillan, Faber & Faber and Canongate. Digital editions will be available for sale as of the end of October, with print books to follow at a later date. get them instantly on their free Anobii ebook apps. They will have Anobii iOS reading apps at launch, and plan to add Android apps “shortly.” Their cloud-based service […]