Comments on: Ebook Sales Up 59% in 2007

By: Dana

Dana — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 22:33:47 +0000

This isn’t an e-book sale, but I thought Neil Gaiman’s post about “American Gods” was interesting.

It’s worth drawing people’s attention to the fact that the free online reading copy of American Gods is now in its last six days online (it ends 31 March 08). I learned this from an email from Harper Collins, which also told me the latest batch of statistics.

For American Gods:

68,000 unique visitors to the book pages of American Gods

3,000,000 book pages viewed in aggregate

And that the weekly book sales of American Gods have apparently gone up by 300%, rather than tumbling into the abyss. (Which is — the rise, not the tumble — what I thought would happen. Or at least, what I devoutly hoped would happen.)

Link to Blog: http://journal.neilgaiman.com/

Link to free e-book: http://browseinside.harpercollins.com/index.aspx?isbn13=9780060558123&WT.mc_id=author_AmerGods_FullAccess_022208

By: Terry Odell

Terry Odell — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 14:26:40 +0000

Agreed – I wish readers were more affordable and formatting wars would end. But I have stocked my eBookwise with books. Right now, I’m going through J.A. Jance’s backlist of her J.P. Beaumont series and her Joanna Brady series. Saves me at least two shelves. And a bit cheaper, too. And green.

By: Sandy (strlady)

Sandy (strlady) — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 12:02:14 +0000

I also think that the ebook sales have increased due to the availability and variety of the new ebook readers. We always had ebook readers but the new slick models out there with various functionality does make ebook reading much more… pretty? convenient? techie?
The bulkiness of the old models didn’t inspire anyone to purchase a reader and many people didn’t like reading on a PDA, so ebooks were not as convenient as say a paperback. Now with ebook readers sliming down and teching up more and more people are buying them, which leads to more ebook sales.
~S

By: Dana

Dana — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 06:38:30 +0000

There’s a note on Amazon saying they sold out of Kindle, in 5 1/2 hours. Apparently it’s on backorder at the moment. (Although, I don’t know exactly how many was sold.) So yeah, ebooks do seem to be selling.

By: Shiloh Walker

Shiloh Walker — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 01:05:09 +0000

Gee, ya still think there are people out there saying ebooks won’t last?

;)