Amazon Sells More Ebooks On Christmas Than Real Books 111
ctmurray writes
"Amazon reports for the first time ever they sold more ebooks on one day than real books. My wife is an ebook-only author and reported her largest single day sales on Christmas day, and December has been her best month ever as well. All those Kindles bought for this season are being seen in ebook sales."
The battle with publishers over pricing seems to be coming to the fore as well.
Re:Greedy publishers (Score:5, Informative)
They are in the publishing business - it's called booksurge [booksurge.com] and is apparently in the process of being rebranded CreateSpace.
This is print on demand, self publishing stuff but reading the above articles make it pretty clear to me that this is where stuff is headed. The big publishing houses don't make a lot of sense any more. Pretty much like music.
Misleading.... (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Greedy publishers (Score:4, Informative)
They are in the ebook publishing business with the Amazon Digital Test Platform: https://dtp.amazon.com/mn/signin [amazon.com]
You can have your book published directly to Kindle and get better royalties than many other publishers would give you.
Re:Kindle Prices ... (Score:1, Informative)
I'm not sure if others have noticed, but lately Kindle books have been trending upwards in price, and its pretty common now that paperback editions are less than the Kindle copies, whereas six months ago they tended to be cheaper, if only by a nickel or something...)
No I hadn't noticed. Since you mentioned it I looked at a dozen or two of the Amazon bestsellers, and a bunch of other random books, and couldn't find a single one where the Kindle price was more than the paperback price, if the paperback is currently out. (I found one book where the list Kindle price is higher, for a paperback due in Feb 2010, but when the paperback comes out I'm sure the Kindle price will drop as well). Pretty common? How about some links to these examples, I can't find any?
Re:Kindle Prices ... (Score:3, Informative)
While the sales have apparently ended, most of December the -hardbound- of Terry Pratchett's latest Discworld novel at either Amazon or B&N was cheaper than the respective eBook versions. Granted without the sales going on the eBook is now cheaper, but one does wonder why the digital copy would -ever- be prices higher than any
other version.