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Ebook Sales Up 59% in 2007

By Jane • Mar 21st, 2008 • Category: Publishing News • •

Business Week reports that ebook sales are up 59% in 2007 as compared to sales in 2006. I suspect some of this is due to the increasing availability of mainstream books in “e” form. I believe that all major publishers put out their romance books in ebook form except Dorchester (although I have heard some positive rumblings about that in the future).

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5 Responses »

  1. Shiloh Walker on March 21st, 2008 at 8:05 pm:

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

    ;)

  2. Dana on March 22nd, 2008 at 1:38 am:

    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.

  3. Sandy (strlady) on March 22nd, 2008 at 7:02 am:

    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

  4. Terry Odell on March 22nd, 2008 at 9:26 am:

    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.

  5. Dana on March 26th, 2008 at 5:33 pm:

    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

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