eReaders will be promoted heavily this holiday season. Some of the deals have started already and others are on deck for Black Friday. Among them, Best Buy is already selling the older keyboard Kindle 3 with 3G for $89.99, and Target will sell that model for $85 on Black Friday. Also on Friday, Best Buy will sell the new Nook Simple Touch for $79, and Target and Staples will provide $30 and $20 gift cards respectively with purchases at the $99 list price. Target will also provide a $30 gift card with purchase of the $199 Nook Color. Staples will […]
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Paolini Sales Nearly 500k; Isaacson Sells A Lot
Random House Children’s reports another very strong opening day for Christopher Paolini, with INHERITANCE selling 489,500 units yesterday (including print, ebook and audio editions), it’s first day on sale. The publisher says “hardcovers dominated the opening-day sell-through, with an 83/17 percent print to digital split.” Paolini’s BRISINGR sold approximately 550,000 units on opening day in the US in September 2008, back when Borders was still operating. In other sales news, Simon & Schuster continues to demur regarding any reporting of sales over the past two weeks for Walter Isaacson’s STEVE JOBS biography. But we’ve spoken to few executives familiar with […]
Authors In the Kindle Lending Library: The Complete List
We’ve been finding that a lot of authors, agents and publishers often don’t know that they have books that Amazon has elected to include in the Kindle Lending Library “promotion”–where the etailer pays the full wholesale ebook price. So here is a linked list of all the authors Amazon says are represented in the collection, along with the number of titles matches. (Sometimes Amazon makes a match even if the “author” has contributed just a foreword.) We’ve also been working hard to learn more about the nature of the titles in the collection, through a variety of search routines (none […]
More Data for More Authors; More Amazon for Times Readers
Alongside Simon & Schuster’s new Author and Agent portals, reported yesterday, Random House and Hachette Book Group told the NYT they are working on similar efforts. Random House’s Stuart Applebaum “said a date had not yet been set, but that the site would provide sales data in all formats, in addition to marketing tools and related information.” Sophie Cottrell indicated Hachette’s portal would launch “sometime in 2012.” That’s the news portion of the Times article. The rest underscores the narrative thread that will apparently drive NYT publishing coverage for the foreseeable future: everything is a response to Amazon. Publishers sharing […]
AAP July Sales Numbers
The AAP is still catching up on their monthly sales numbers and just released their statistics for July. (To repeat last month’s reminder, this is the data from the limited set of publishers who reported monthly to the AAP, not to be confused with the larger pool of annual data and estimates reflected in the new Book Stats program the publishers organization runs along with the BISG, which debuted in August). After June’s pronounced declines in adult hardcover and trade paperback sales compared to a year ago, the July numbers show a rebound, at least for adult hardcovers. Net sales […]
Bowker Details 10-Country eBook Survey, and More eNews
As previewed at Monday’s Publishers Launch Conference, on Wednesday Bowker announced full details on the expansion of their consumer research into ebooks beyond the US and UK. They will conduct a new annual study, starting in January 2012 (for presentation in March), to chart the state of consumer ebook and ereading device use and acceptance around the world. They will gather additional data samples from Germany, France, Spain, India, Australia, Brazil, South Korea and Japan, in collaboration with companies including A.T. Kearney, the Book Industry Study Group, Pearson and Tata Consultancy Services. In other enews, Ectaco is demonstrating their JetBook Color […]