Penguin has reported that e-book sales from the first four months of
2008 have surpassed the house’s total e-book sales for all of last
year. According to the publisher, the spike is "more than five times
the overall growth in sales, year-on-year, through April 2008." Penguin
Group CEO David Shanks said he attributed the jump, in large part, to
the growing popularity of e-book readers.
Here is the link and right here you can buy Discover Your Inner Economist in Kindle form (it’s also available as a Sony eBook) and paperback as well, here is the Amazon link.
Addendum: Here is more on the economics of Kindle.
OK Tyler – you are getting a bit too mainstream media here – I am calling an abuse of statistics foul…
If I sold 10 of something in 2007 it is not too hard to sell 20 of the product in the first 4 months of 2008…
Percent increases with no information on base size are almost useless – and the same applies to growth rate calculations…
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Of course Amazon should demand publishers cut prices: a product that has no physical production costs, effectively zero shipping costs, and no wastage ought to cost less than a product that does. The last is the most important: publishers can reasonably argue that they have to price physical books to cover the costs of the duds. But ebooks eliminate the physical cost of the duds.
i’ve definitely noticed a non-trivial amount of kindle e-book purchases on my amazon associates account.
The kindle doesn’t look all that much better than predecessors. What kicked the concept over the tipping point?
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Well, ebook sales figures have been unbelievably low, so an increase of 2X or even 10X wouldn’t really indicate much.
Me, I find ebooks cool and e-distribution even cooler, but I’m betting that the whole ebook-reader-and-ebooks thing will never take off much.
Mainly for this reason: Electronics don’t promote text-reading, electronics promote multimedia. By the time something like the Kindle is really perfected, only oldies will still want to stare at page after page of nothing-but-text. Everyone else will expect motion, color, video, clickable links, with short text boxes doing little but explanatory duty.
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It seems that e-books and Kindle 2.0 will work just fine… Sometimes technology can probe to be useful. I just imagine a e-book reading device that works based on infrared emitters and which can be interconnected with a wide screen TV… It’s going to happen and soon enough.
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