As for the e-book store, I think B&N and Kobo both have very good e-book stores (ahead of Sony, Apple, and Google), but Amazon is still the undisputed leader, with the most titles available (ignore B&N's marketing talk of having the «largest» e-book store:
they count public domain titles that Amazon doesn't, even though they are easily available for the Kindle as well).
Not exact matches
Self - publishing is obviously taking off, but statistics on new
titles are almost impossible to come by because so many books
counted as part of «nontraditional» publishing include reprints of old books now in the
public domain.
Barnes and Noble inflates its Nook
count with over a million
public domain titles, and Apple just recently passed the 100,000 -
title mark in its iBooks store, which is so embarrassingly lame that Apple dropped iBooks from its Apps listings just as it was about to fall out of the Top 20 listings.
The last bit of Kindle - related news from the press release is that the U.S. Kindle Store has grown to more than 810,000 ebooks, not
counting the millions of free
public domain titles.
The Amazon ebook store has (at this writing) about twice as many fiction
titles and about five times as many non-fiction
titles as B&N's ebook store does, not
counting free
public -
domain titles.