Comments on: Some short postings: ebook sales at Amazon, Overdrive costs, new iPhone http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/some-short-postings-ebook-sales-at-amazon-overdrive-costs-new-iphone/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:00:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: eal http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/some-short-postings-ebook-sales-at-amazon-overdrive-costs-new-iphone/comment-page-1/#comment-1150043 eal Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:52:56 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/?p=33149#comment-1150043 on the Kindle book sales, I assume they count free books as sales. I just looked at the Kindle best sellers and found the top 9, 9 of the top 10 and 17 of the top 25 bestsellers are free. on the Kindle book sales, I assume they count free books as sales. I just looked at the Kindle best sellers and found the top 9, 9 of the top 10 and 17 of the top 25 bestsellers are free.

]]> By: Binko Barnes http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/some-short-postings-ebook-sales-at-amazon-overdrive-costs-new-iphone/comment-page-1/#comment-1150008 Binko Barnes Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:36:31 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/?p=33149#comment-1150008 The article about Overdrive is talking about audiobooks. Audiobooks are extremely expensive. Does anybody know how this kind of system works? If the library uses the Overdrive service and patrons download audio books how many copies of a given book can be "lent out" at a time? In theory it could be infinite but my guess is that there is a limit. The article about Overdrive is talking about audiobooks. Audiobooks are extremely expensive.

Does anybody know how this kind of system works? If the library uses the Overdrive service and patrons download audio books how many copies of a given book can be “lent out” at a time?

In theory it could be infinite but my guess is that there is a limit.

]]> By: Charles http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/some-short-postings-ebook-sales-at-amazon-overdrive-costs-new-iphone/comment-page-1/#comment-1150006 Charles Mon, 30 Nov 2009 09:35:08 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/?p=33149#comment-1150006 $1500 a month for 30 new titles?? That's $50 a book - twice the price of a new hardback. $1500 a month for 30 new titles??
That’s $50 a book – twice the price of a new hardback.

]]> By: Paul Story http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/some-short-postings-ebook-sales-at-amazon-overdrive-costs-new-iphone/comment-page-1/#comment-1149979 Paul Story Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:06:09 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/?p=33149#comment-1149979 Ms Portugal contradicts herself or has been misquoted. In the reference above, she says that... “For every 100 books we sell in physical, we sell 48 Kindle books,”...“This is up from 35 books for every 100 in May." And yet her reported words in May were... "Kindle titles already account for more than 35 percent of unit sales for books that are available in both print and on Kindle." http://tinyurl.com/q7rntx 48 books out of 148 books is approximately 32%. Is she saying that sales are down? Unlikely. Perhaps they are up because this time she is referring to all books sold by amazon.com and not just those that were available also in Kindle format. Probably not. It's hard to compare without clarification. Ms Portugal contradicts herself or has been misquoted.

In the reference above, she says that…

“For every 100 books we sell in physical, we sell 48 Kindle books,”…“This is up from 35 books for every 100 in May.”

And yet her reported words in May were…

“Kindle titles already account for more than 35 percent of unit sales for books that are available in both print and on Kindle.”

http://tinyurl.com/q7rntx

48 books out of 148 books is approximately 32%. Is she saying that sales are down? Unlikely. Perhaps they are up because this time she is referring to all books sold by amazon.com and not just those that were available also in Kindle format. Probably not.

It’s hard to compare without clarification.

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