When USA Today told us in our Monday report that they were “keeping a very close eye on the rapidly developing e-book marketplace” and “actively discussing how [their] list ought to evolve to reflect changes in publishing,” they really meant it. In advance of tomorrow’s new bestseller list for the week ending February 6, the paper writes today that self-epublished sensation Amanda Hocking will have three of her YA paranormals appear on the list for the first time–all among the top 50 titles. This comes as the NYT ebooks bestseller list debuts for the public with an exclusion for self-published […]
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Some Hints on Google eBooks
Also at this morning’s Digital Book World 2011, Google Books product manager Abe Murray presented the first (albeit scant) statistics and user insights into their recently-launched ebooks venture. Their bestseller list so far looks like the same Larsson-heavy list you find elsewhere, and on a category basis, the topselling subjects by volume are romance, biography, thrillers, finance, young adults, sci-fi/fantasy, politics and diet/fitness. Murray said they have well over 1 million apps installed, and “blew past this number within weeks of launch.” They have added 60 resellers since launch, now at 180, indicating that independent booksellers are continuing to enlist […]
Apple Sells Another 7.3 Million iPads; Analysts Ups Guess on Kindles Sold; VC Funding News; and More
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 […]
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 […]
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.
eNews: Google Buys eBook Technologies; More Stats on eBook Bestsellers in the US and UK; Roberts Passes Million; and More
Google has acquired eBook Technologies Inc., co-founded and run by president Garth Conboy and ceo Jon Rivlin, for undisclosed terms. The search giant comments very briefly, “Together, we hope to deliver richer reading experiences on tablets, electronic readers and other portable devices.” Conboy and Rivlin are longtime ebook pioneers, both having served in executive positions at SoftBook Press and then Gemstar in the first ebook bubble. Conboy currently serves as chairman of the board of the IDPF, and Conboy and Rivlin both are the inventors/co-inventors of many ebook-related patents, including cryptography and secure content distribution, eBook UI, resource/database dynamic conversion […]