Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Monday, November 2, 2009
U.S. Leading the World in Mobile eBook Use:
http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/techbeat/archives/2009/10/us_leading_the.html
“Currently, iPhone owners consume 42.1% of all mobile ebooks served up via Wattpad, which tracks ebook usage in 160 countries. And 78% of all iPhone ebook usage comes from North America.”
“Currently, iPhone owners consume 42.1% of all mobile ebooks served up via Wattpad, which tracks ebook usage in 160 countries. And 78% of all iPhone ebook usage comes from North America.”
Estimated Kindle Sales:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ratcliffe/?p=466
“Working from my previous estimate, 783,000 as of July 1, and building in unit volume growth of 60 percent—sales revenue gains in electronics in the U.S., $217 million higher in the first three quarters of 2009 than in 2008, seems to be driven heavily by Kindle sales—I estimate Amazon has sold 1,072,000 Kindles as of Sept. 30, 2009. That would be 289,000 Kindles sold during Q3.”
Monday, October 19, 2009
Libraries and eBooks
The New York Times reports that:
“About 5,400 public libraries now offer e-books, as well as digitally downloadable audio books. The collections are still tiny compared with print troves. The New York Public Library, for example, has about 18,300 e-book titles, compared with 860,500 in circulating print titles, and purchases of digital books represent less than 1 percent of the library’s overall acquisition budget.”
“But circulation is expanding quickly. The number of checkouts has grown to more than 1 million so far this year from 607,275 in all of 2007, according to OverDrive, a large provider of e-books to public libraries. NetLibrary, another provider of e-books to about 5,000 public libraries and a division of OCLC, a nonprofit library service organization, has seen circulation of e-books and digital audio books rise 21 percent over the past year.”
“About 5,400 public libraries now offer e-books, as well as digitally downloadable audio books. The collections are still tiny compared with print troves. The New York Public Library, for example, has about 18,300 e-book titles, compared with 860,500 in circulating print titles, and purchases of digital books represent less than 1 percent of the library’s overall acquisition budget.”
“But circulation is expanding quickly. The number of checkouts has grown to more than 1 million so far this year from 607,275 in all of 2007, according to OverDrive, a large provider of e-books to public libraries. NetLibrary, another provider of e-books to about 5,000 public libraries and a division of OCLC, a nonprofit library service organization, has seen circulation of e-books and digital audio books rise 21 percent over the past year.”
Thursday, October 8, 2009
eBook Consumer Buying Behavior
“Other statistics of interest: 45.5% of e-book reader owners are spending between $9 and $20 a month on e-book content, and 11% of total survey respondents said they planned to purchase an e-book over the next 12 months.”
Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS58530+09-Sep-2009+BW20090909
Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS58530+09-Sep-2009+BW20090909
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Electronic book readers poised to become this holiday's hot ticket
Will digital books catch fire this holiday? According to an online survey, 1 in 5 shoppers said they planned to buy an electronic book reader such as a Sony Reader or Amazon Kindle this year...
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2009/09/ebook-readers-kindle-sony.html
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2009/09/ebook-readers-kindle-sony.html
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
AAP Sales for July Posted
"E-books sales reached $16.2 million, reflecting a 213.5 percent increase for July, and a 173.9 percent year to-date."
http://www.publishers.org/main/PressCenter/Archicves/2009_September/PublishingSalesJuly09.htm
http://www.publishers.org/main/PressCenter/Archicves/2009_September/PublishingSalesJuly09.htm
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Welcome to the NBN Fusion Blog!
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Publishers with questions are encouraged to contact Davida Breier (dbreier[at]nbnbooks.com).
NBN Fusion offers a variety of services including digital book sales, book production services and book manufacturing. The digital book arm includes e-book distribution, discounted conversion services, and sales to a long list of vendors. Production services include copyediting, composition, file conversion, proofreading, indexing, and consultation. Fusion’s manufacturing services will offer extremely low rates for Print-On-Demand (POD) and Digital Short Run (DSR) and can also provide quotes from preferred printers for offset and 4-color printing.
Publishers with questions are encouraged to contact Davida Breier (dbreier[at]nbnbooks.com).
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