It's a safe bet, I think, that we're not going to see the sort of explosive
growth in the ebook market that we saw from 2009 to 2012.
Having collaborated with over 50 publishing partners to produce hundreds of electronic titles and make our
mark in the eBook market, we expanded our services to offer self - publishing solutions in 2014.
We're not seeing specific sales numbers for the Nooks broken down by SKU here, but they do say that «according to some of the largest U.S. publishers, we maintained or slightly gained
share in the eBook market during the third quarter.»
We're still the strong number
in the ebook market in terms of market share in the US, and we're starting to take what we've learned and move it overseas.
All of this begs the question of why the Justice Department continues to train all of its antitrust fire on Apple, which continues to be an also - ran
in the ebook market with a market share reportedly around 10 percent for most publishers.
In our conversation today (May 26) with INscribe's Larry Norton, he mentions a chart from Nielsen that indicates a
shift in ebook market share in the US.
It's a further sign that the education market might be a bigger early player
in the ebook market development than the wider consumer market although textbook suppliers are nervous about just how the move to ebooks will affect their traditional business.
This mistake will probably put the Kindle in a further akward position, at a time when the device needs better traction to gain
dominance in the EBooks market and even the physical books market...
[pullquote] A great day for anyone who wants to see bookstores continue to have a major
role in the ebook market for years to come.
I just don't think that a company of Amazon's stature, and a
pioneer in eBook marketing, should appear to treat the public like fools.
It's startling to anyone who dismisses Apple as an also -
ran in the ebook market and might encourage publishers and authors who haven't focused on the platform to begin doing so.
Since mid-2009,
competition in the eBook market has been intensifying but, in our view, Kindle remains the most compelling eBook device and a material contributor to Amazon's non-core business growth.
When the Agency Pricing model went into effect, many of the authors whose books I read disappeared from my ebook store of choice (ironicaly, the publishers» collective desire to take on Amazon's power
in the ebook market drove me to the kindle store.)
Two reasons for this: one, best practice for ISBNs is that if I really wanted to sell the PDF, I'd need another one, and two, PDF sales have declined
sharply in ebook markets in general since the sales numbers haven't supported them.
Self - published authors of genre fiction are a driving
force in the ebook market and so we are looking forward to offering Smashwords» 250,000 titles to all the users of the txtr platform in 20 countries, alongside bestsellers from well - known publishers.»
Bookeen has acquired a unique
experience in the ebook market with the launch of the five generations of e-reader, has sold hundreds of thousands of e-readers across 70 countries, and millions of e-books have been downloaded.
The books that we keep hearing about as success
stories in the ebook market, romances, mysteries, thrillers, and science fiction, between them amount to something less than 5 % of the annual sales of the traditional print book market.