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Stieg Larsson Sells More than One Million Kindle Books no comments
Amazon announced today that Stieg Larsson is the first author to sell more than one million Kindle books. Larsson is the first member of a new “Kindle Million Club.”
All three books in Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy—“The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,” “The Girl Who Played with Fire” and “The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest”—are now in the top 10 bestselling Kindle books of all time. These three books are New York Times and international bestsellers. Larsson, who lived in Sweden, was the editor in chief of the magazine Expo and a leading expert on antidemocratic right-wing extremist organizations. He died in 2004, shortly after delivering the manuscripts for “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,” “The Girl Who Played with Fire” and “The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest.” The U.S. editions of these books are published by the Knopf Doubleday imprint of Random House, Inc.
Earlier this month it was announced that James Patterson was the first author to sell more than one million ebooks, but that came from sales across all devices, not just from sales at the Kindle Store.
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eBook Sales Up in May; HP Working on Color Reflective Displays no comments
The Association of American Publishers reports that ebook sales for the month of May increased by 162.8 percent from last year and were up 207.4 percent year-to-date. Sales of ebooks by the publishers surveyed now make up 8.48 percent of their total trade books sales.
Downloaded audio books also saw a large gain of 72.9 percent over last year, and are up 33.3 percent year-to-date.
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HP is another company that is working on color reflective displays. Technology Review has an article on their efforts. HP’s approach is to develop luminescent materials to solve the dimness problems inherent in non-backlit color displays. It sounds as though HP is still in the early stages of development and their color epaper technology likely won’t be hitting the market anytime soon.
The light loss issue is why E Ink’s new Pearl display (used in the new Kindle DX Graphite) came about. E Ink’s approach to color electrophoretic displays is to place a color filter over a monochrome e-ink display which dims the display down. This is why a display with much better contrast was necessary.
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eBooks Post Another Large Sales Increase in March no comments
The Association of American Publishers (AAP) has released its latest report of book sales – this report is for March 2010. Overall book sales were up by 16.6 percent for the month and 8 percent for the year.
Sales of ebooks were up 184.8 percent for the month and 251.9 percent for the year. eBook sales so far only make up a small percentage of overall book sales (around 6 percent in March), but they do seem to be growing almost exponentially.
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eBook Sales Jump in February no comments
The Association of American Publishers has released its book sales report for the month of February. Ebook sales jumped 339.3 percent for the month which equates to an increase of 292.3 percent for the year. I guess all of those ereaders that were bought during the holidays are staying busy.
In general the book publishing industry seems to have had a good month. Book sales were up by 12.2 percent for the month and 4.8 percent for the year. The Children’s and Young Adult book category did not do well – hardcover sales were down by 48.5 percent for the month and paperbacks were down by 15.5 percent in this category. On the other hand Adult Paperback sales were up 35.3 percent for the month. Audio books also had a good month with a sales increase of 15.2 percent for the month and 9.4 percent for the year.
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eBook Sales Up 170% in 2009 no comments
The Association of American Publishers reports that ebook sales in 2009 were 176.6% higher than in the previous year. Audiobook sales dropped 12.9% last year and were outsold by ebooks.
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eBook Sales Jump 176% in 2009 no comments
The Association of American Publishers reports that ebook sales jumped 176.6% in 2009. Ebooks accounted for 3.3% of trade sales in 2009; up from 1.2% in 2008.
