Spanish ebook sales increase 500% in 2009
By Paul Biba
That’s what the Barcelona Reporter is saying. They quote TodoeBooks as saying that there are about 100,000 reading devices in Spain in 2009 and that the year before the number was “negligible”.
For TodoeBook’s executive director, Luis Francisco Rodriguez, the increase in sales of electronic content has been “very strong” for quite some years but the marketing of reading devices in Spain has made the sales become “exponential” This is reflected in the increase of publisher content available to the reader.
Thanks to Resource Shelf for the link.
January 19th, 2010 at 8:45 am
I quote from the source: “TodoeBook, citing unofficial sources, estimates that in Spain there are currently more than 100,000 reading devices”.
I live in Spain and I find that figure extremely generous and hard to believe. Even when some important chain stores were selling electronic readers during Christmas, the number of e-reader models currently available in the country is quite scarce (a couple of rebranded Hanlins and Netronix, Cool-er; all the other models, like Sony reader, iLiad, etc., are imported).
That information is more like a purposely vague desiderata and should not be taken too seriously.