If you own an e-reader this is the week when you can snag more free
e-books than at any time in the year.
Not exact matches
In fact, in 2011 Amazon declared that for the first
time, it had sold more Kindle
e-books than paperback books,
at a rate of 115 electronic books for -LSB-...]
Sales of printed romance books have fallen for the first time since records began at a time when e-book sales have more than doubled.
So why exactly do so many
e-book readers think that they are entitled to an
e-book edition in their preferred format
at the same
time as the hardcover for less
than half the price?
Indeed,
at the
time the Publisher Defendants snatched retail pricing authority away from Amazon and other
e-book retailers, not one of them had built an internal retail pricing apparatus sufficient to do anything other
than set retail prices
at the Apple Agency Agreements» ostensible caps.
At the same
time, the sluggish response of
e-book sales compared to the overall sales of printed texts has led others to proclaim the rise in popularity of e-readers to be nothing more
than a fad.
Barnes & Noble may be challenging Amazon's dominance of the
e-book world, but Kindle sales are still growing faster
than the Nook's —
at least if you connect the dots between some of the numbers included in a recently - published article by The New York
Times.
However, this doesn't allow
e-books to be available outside of libraries» physical confines, it doesn't allow libraries to acquire multiple copies of
e-books they want to make available to more
than one patron
at a
time, and Google can withhold up to 15 % of its scanned titles
at its discretion.
Washington Post — Amazon makes an offer to Hachette authors — this article takes an interesting look
at the stats, which indicate that Hachette would have much more to lose by giving up revenue from their author's ebooks
than Amazon — «According to Hachette's Web site, the publisher makes approximately 33 percent of its sales from
e-books; the New York
Times reported that around 60 percent of that business comes through Amazon.
As of the
time I'm writing this post, the hard cover price is $ 8.45, more
than a buck less
than the
e-book price (which is still set by the publisher
at $ 9.99.
Sales of printed romance books have fallen for the first
time since records began
at a
time when
e-book sales have more
than doubled.
At the
time when Kindle sold NYT bestsellers for $ 9.99,
e-books were less widely available
than they are now, and they were available on fewer platforms.