Comments on: Ebooks accounted for 29% of all first week sales of The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest http://www.teleread.com/publishing/ebooks-accounted-for-29-of-all-first-week-sales-of-the-girl-who-kicked-the-hornets-nest/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:30:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Occam's Breadknife http://www.teleread.com/publishing/ebooks-accounted-for-29-of-all-first-week-sales-of-the-girl-who-kicked-the-hornets-nest/comment-page-1/#comment-1168342 Occam's Breadknife Fri, 04 Jun 2010 18:26:07 +0000 http://www.teleread.com/?p=43551#comment-1168342 "Publishing industry observers have been fond of saying that print books still account for over 90 percent of all book sales, and that any tipping point for ebook sales is still a long way off. We will not be hearing such pronouncements much longer. " And the two week numbers were...? and the author compares One week of sales ALL of sales for Lost Symbol: "By comparison, published reports of the total ebook sell-through for Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol last year put it at less than 10 percent of the title’s overall sales, despite the fact that ebook sales outperformed hardcover sales on the Amazon.com website for several weeks." Counting ebook chickens before they are hatched is quite the hobby these days. I just wish folks did it with more skill. Lastly, the author, a Kindle proponent as stated at the end of the article, calls Apple's model "price fixing", after Amazon had a battle with Macmillan over Amazon's refusal to let Macmillan set its own pricing of its ebooks. And has not Amazon spoken of adopting Apple's agency model? Biased much, dear author? “Publishing industry observers have been fond of saying that print books still account for over 90 percent of all book sales, and that any tipping point for ebook sales is still a long way off.

We will not be hearing such pronouncements much longer. ”

And the two week numbers were…?

and the author compares One week of sales ALL of sales for Lost Symbol:
“By comparison, published reports of the total ebook sell-through for Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol last year put it at less than 10 percent of the title’s overall sales, despite the fact that ebook sales outperformed hardcover sales on the Amazon.com website for several weeks.”

Counting ebook chickens before they are hatched is quite the hobby these days. I just wish folks did it with more skill.

Lastly, the author, a Kindle proponent as stated at the end of the article, calls Apple’s model “price fixing”, after Amazon had a battle with Macmillan over Amazon’s refusal to let Macmillan set its own pricing of its ebooks. And has not Amazon spoken of adopting Apple’s agency model? Biased much, dear author?

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