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2 Jun 2010 Sony Predicts Ebooks Will Overtake Print Within 5 Years.
"Steve Haber, president of Sony's digital reading business division, said:
'Within five years there will be more digital content sold than physical
content. Three years ago, I said within ten years but I realised that was
wrong - it's within five.' "
(Telegraph)
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24 May 2010
E-Book Sales Jumped 252% in First Quarter, AAP Reports. (Publishers
Weekly)
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17 May 2010 - "The Booksellers Association (UK) has launched a
Digital Guide to Multi-Channel Bookselling for booksellers, designed to
maximise opportunities to reach e-book customers." (The Bookseller)
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11 May 2010 - China to Set Up Rules for New Ebook Market: "China
is planning to make rules regulating the production of e-readers and the
downloads of electronic publications via the Internet...Almost all of
China's IT enterprises want to enter the e-book market, and relevant
government departments fear that the market would be left in disorder
without regulations in place..." (China Daily)
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7 May 2010 - "US publishers are experiencing
strong sales on the iPad after just one month of selling iBooks on the
new device." (The Bookseller)
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29 Apr 2010 - A Few Weeks in, Here is a Breakdown of iPad's eBooks
(O'Reilly Radar)
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22 Apr 2010 - "Hachette Children's UK is to launch its first e-book
range in May and will make around 120 titles available as e-books this
year. The publisher plans to keep the same pricing for its e-books as its
printed editions and is moving towards simultaneous publication of printed
books and e-books, where possible." (The Bookseller)
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23 Apr 2010 - Unlike the Kindle, the iPad Reading Experience Emulates
Books: When Apple's iPad debuted on April 3, it was greeted in some
quarters of the tech world by a chorus of critiques. With no phone, no
camera and no multitasking, how could it be revolutionary? And yet, when it
comes to the iPad's e-reader, revolutionary is exactly what it might be." (BrandX)
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16 Apr 2010 - Publishers Association (UK) Reports
Digital Book Industry Now 5% of Total Sales (The Bookseller)
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26 Mar 2010 - iPad To Have Over 30,000 Free eBooks (TechEye)
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21 Mar 2010 - Ebook Marketing Exploding:
"The ebook market is growing faster as it grows larger...The International
Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) on Friday reported U.S. wholesale ebook
sales for January, 2010 were $31.9 million, up 261 percent from the same
month a year earlier." (Teleread)
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22 Mar 2010 - 'There is a "Copernican shift" in the market,
which is putting content, rather than the physical book, at the center.'
(The Bookseller)
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12 Mar 2010 - Digital Textbooks are Ready for Prime Time, says
NYU Bookstores: "The technology is in place, the books are highly
interactive, and students own powerful portable devices. Moreover,
traditional textbook costs are rising, and students are quite comfortable
with searching, shopping and learning online." (PR Newswire)
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4 Mar 2010 - Barnes & Noble to Test Bundling Ebooks with Paperbooks:
"Barnes & Noble will begin testing the sale of bundled print books and
e-books in the next 60 to 90 days... Providing e-books and print book
bundles is just one way B&N hopes to use its retail footprint to increase
sales of e-books while maintaining its lead position as the nation's largest
bookseller." (Publishers Weekly)
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20 Jan 2010 - Amazon Announces Royalty Option for Kindle Digital Text:
"For each Kindle book sold, authors and publishers who choose the new 70
percent royalty option will receive 70 percent of list price, net of
delivery costs... This new 70 percent royalty option will become available
on June 30, 2010. "
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22 Feb 2010 - Ebook Sales Jump 176% In Flat
Trade Year: "E-book sales from the 13 publishers that report figures to
the Association of American Publishers soared 176.6% in 2009, to $169.5
million, the AAP reported Friday. The jump in e-book sales coupled with a
slight decline in sales of print trade books increased e-book's share of
trade sales from 1.2% in 2008 to 3.3% in 2009." (Publishers Weekly)
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10 Jan 2010 - How E-Books Are Changing The
Printed Word: "Sales will go from about $150 million last year . . . to
an estimated billion-dollar business by 2012, as new products from tech
companies like Apple flood the market." (CBS News)
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28 Dec 2009 - Amazon Ebook Sales Overtake Print For First Time:
"Spare a thought for the humble hardback this Christmas. It seems the
traditional giftwrapped tome is being trumped by downloads, after Amazon
customers bought more e-books than printed books for the first time on
Christmas Day..." (Guardian)
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