Jul 10 2008
Kindle eBook Sales 12% of Amazon Book Revenue for Titles in E-Form
According to an Amazon insider, of the books that are available in eform, 12% of those sales at Amazon are Kindle sales. On an industry wide scale, ebook sales make up only a single digit market share so Amazon would be exceeding the industry scale if the insider’s tip is true.
It’s difficult to know what this means to the publishing industry as a whole other than Amazon, an increasingly powerful player in the market, is dedicated to ebooks and the promotion of ebooks.
Via Teleread.
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Jul 10, 2008 @ 14:54:46
Math gives me a pain. At All Things D interview Jeff Bezos said: the Kindle is now responsible for 6 percent of the sales of the titles sold by Amazon on Kindle and in print.
Quite a few titles are only available on Amazon in Kindle format and I don’t know how they count books where the physical book is only available on Amazon from the secondary market. So I guess it could be 12% of sales and it does sound like a lot of books.
Aug 06, 2008 @ 11:55:36
DS, I think that 12% is of the whole of ebook sales, not books in general. So maybe 6% of total books sales could be right?
Thank you for the update Jane, I am very interested in hearing the real dope on Kindle and ebooks at Amazon!