According to a report from the Association of American Publishers, book sales have fallen in April a slight amount (3.5%) to $272.7 million. Year to date sales are flat at $2.183 billion. I’ve decided to start keeping a spreadsheet although I’m not certain how it will look in final form (suggestions from accounting folks [...]
While yearly sales are still up 1.3%, book sales in March have declined by 11%. Ebook sales were the biggest increases at 58.9% but still only a fraction of the billion dollar book industry at $4.4 million. Trade paperbacks (6.2%), Children’s YA paperbacks (9.1%) and Children’s YA hardcovers were up (2.4%). The [...]
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 [...]
I had great news in my inbox today. Penguin is lowering its retail price for eBooks to match the print retail price. The price decrease is already in effect or going to be in effect soon. This means that instead of Lover Unbound selling for a retail price of $9.99, it should [...]
A couple of days ago, I made a recommendation for a book and one of our readers, Anji, asked whether it was in ebook form. It is not. Penguin is not ready to release all of its books in ebook format and when it does release the books in ebook format, the price is [...]
It shocked me a bit to know from reader Fiona that she was unaware that Harper Collins was releasing many of its prints books in ebook format. Jayne and I began to brainstorm about all the ebookstore vendors out there and whether we could provide a comparison chart to [...]
You can visit Michelle Moran's website and find out more about Nefertiti including an excerpt.
Tara Marie did a great review of this book when it came out in hardcover.
"This is one of those books you want everyone you know to read. When I sat down to review this I picked up the book to skim different passages, and found myself rereading huge chunks of the book, finally giving up and rereading the whole thing."
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