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Amazon Sells More Ebooks On Christmas Than Real Books

Posted by Soulskill on from the takes-way-more-to-stuff-a-stocking-though dept.

ctmurray writes "Amazon reports for the first time ever they sold more ebooks on one day than real books. My wife is an ebook-only author and reported her largest single day sales on Christmas day, and December has been her best month ever as well. All those Kindles bought for this season are being seen in ebook sales." The battle with publishers over pricing seems to be coming to the fore as well.

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  1. Re:Greedy publishers by stoolpigeon · · Score: 4, Informative

    They are in the publishing business - it's called booksurge and is apparently in the process of being rebranded CreateSpace.

    This is print on demand, self publishing stuff but reading the above articles make it pretty clear to me that this is where stuff is headed. The big publishing houses don't make a lot of sense any more. Pretty much like music.

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  2. Misleading.... by KronosReaver · · Score: 3, Informative

    Just like iTunes, Amazon generates a zero dollar sales receipt when you download a free Ebook from them. And there are plenty of those to be found, mostly the first book in a series... "Hey Kid, The first ones FREE." - but we will be counting it as a "Sale".

  3. Re:Greedy publishers by thesuperbigfrog · · Score: 3, Informative

    They are in the ebook publishing business with the Amazon Digital Test Platform: https://dtp.amazon.com/mn/signin

    You can have your book published directly to Kindle and get better royalties than many other publishers would give you.

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  4. Re:Kindle Prices ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    I'm not sure if others have noticed, but lately Kindle books have been trending upwards in price, and its pretty common now that paperback editions are less than the Kindle copies, whereas six months ago they tended to be cheaper, if only by a nickel or something...)

    No I hadn't noticed. Since you mentioned it I looked at a dozen or two of the Amazon bestsellers, and a bunch of other random books, and couldn't find a single one where the Kindle price was more than the paperback price, if the paperback is currently out. (I found one book where the list Kindle price is higher, for a paperback due in Feb 2010, but when the paperback comes out I'm sure the Kindle price will drop as well). Pretty common? How about some links to these examples, I can't find any?

  5. Re:Kindle Prices ... by Roogna · · Score: 2, Informative

    While the sales have apparently ended, most of December the -hardbound- of Terry Pratchett's latest Discworld novel at either Amazon or B&N was cheaper than the respective eBook versions. Granted without the sales going on the eBook is now cheaper, but one does wonder why the digital copy would -ever- be prices higher than any
    other version.