21Mar
e-Book Sales Almost Quadruple from Last Year
Posted by virtualDavis | Category: Publishing | 2 Comments
Image via Wikipedia
If your head is still spinning after 2009’s triple digit growth rate, you’ll need a clamp to steady your skull when you read that January 2010 e-book sales posted a nearly 370% jump over the same month in 2009, according to the International Digital Publishing Forum and the Association of American Publishers. The numbers are $31,900,000 for January ’10 compared to $8,800,000 for January ’09. January was also the biggest e-sales month ever, and it wasn’t even close. The biggest month to date was December ’09 at $19,100,000. (booktrade.info)
Hat tip to http://twitter.com/iainbroome for the link to this upbeat news.
Related articles
- E-book reader sales to boom as prices plunge (go.theregister.com)
- The Gorilla in in the House Again (madgeniusclub.com)
- Can’t Live Without Us, Says Publisher. Can Too, Says Konrath (ereads.com)
Interesting. Thanks for sharing!
This is actually last year’s data. The post got out of sync while migrating the blog from Drupal to WordPress. But the new figures may already be available, and I suspect that the update will continue to be as dramatic as the dated news!