USA Today has analyzed the bestseller list they will publish in the paper tomorrow, reflecting sales in the unusual post-Christmas week. Launched by millions of newly-gifted devices with e-reading capability and assisted by lousy weather in many parts of the country, all six of top bestsellers for the week sold more ebooks than print books, as did 19 of the top 50 titles. USA Today notes that “tt’s the first time the top-50 list has had more than two titles in which the e-version outsold print.” (Many publishers have indicated that their biggest titles were already selling anywhere from 20 […]
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A Little Slower than Amazon, BN Issues Nook Sales Superlatives (As eBooks Outsell Print on BN.com)
Barnes & Noble is playing catch-up with Amazon’s stream of releases about how Kindle is bestest, fastest, biggest-selling item. BN says they have sold “millions” of Nook devices, declaring “the line has become the company’s biggest bestseller ever in its nearly 40-year history.” More interesting is that they “now sell more digital books” (presumably calculated in units rather than dollars) than printed books via BN.com. Despite technical problems (which are not mentioned in the press release), BN says they sold “nearly one million” ebooks on Christmas Day–giving you some idea of how many Nook readers were under the tree. Release […]
Larsson Sells 115,000 eBooks On Christmas and Day After
After Amazon reported that THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO was their biggest-selling ebook on December 25 and most-gifted holiday ebook, Random House has said that on December 25 and 26, they sold 115,000 units of Stieg Larsson ebooks across the entire Millennium Trilogy. The company indicated their total ebook sales for that two-day holiday period “rose more than 300% over last year’s sales” (measured in units) setting a new two-day record. (Some executives expressed disappointment to us that early statistics for Christmas Day ebook sales weren’t higher still, since ebook sales have been running about three times last year’s sales throughout […]
Amazon’s New Kindle/Holiday Press Release
The etailer released their traditional post-Christmas non-statistics. Reaching for new non-specific superlatives about Kindle sales, they say the new model is “the bestselling product in Amazon’s history, eclipsing Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7).” We don’t know final sales for the book by the company, but on October 24, 2007 they reported sales of 2.5 million copies worldwide, calling it their “largest new product release.” In today’s release ceo Jeff Bezos acknowledges the even bigger sales of tablets, insisting in a defensive way that “sustomers report using their LCD tablets for games, movies, and web browsing and their […]
AAP-Tracked eBook Sales Hold Steady, But Are Under 7 Percent of Month’s Sales
The AAP reported their October sales numbers this morning, with everyone’s favorite number to watch–their tabulation of ebook sales for 12 reporting publishers–up slightly at $40.7 million. (They have been about the same, month to month, since July.) With net print trade sales from a larger group of publishers reported at $569 million, ebooks comprised 6.7 percent of sales for the month. That’s below the 8 percent of trade sales that ebooks comprise for the entire year through October. (We’ve discussed previously that monthly ebook figures may not be all that precise; also as previously written, our percentages differ from […]
A New Look at the Monthly eBook Percentage: Adult eBooks Are Roughly 9.5 Percent
The AAP reported their monthly industry sales statistics for September, including ebook sales compiled from 12 publishers (including the big six). They show ebook sales for the month of $39.9 million, ahead of August’s $39 million, but behind July’s $40.8 million. (We repeat our warning that insiders have told us not to make too much of the monthly precision on these numbers, based on how data is accumulated by publishers). With total trade print sales of $489.5 million for September, that makes ebooks 7.5 percent of sales overall for the month. The total of $304.6 million in ebooks for the […]