Interesting AP news story about Kindle and the ebook market

This morning a local radio news site is carrying an AP story entitled "Amazon.com's Kindle 
helps tiny e-book market".  The URL is:
     http://www.komoradio.com/news/tech/17270864.html

Some interesting points:  

"Publishing officials ... say that they have seen double digit increases in e-book sales 
since the Kindle's release, including renewed interest in downloads on the Sony Reader."

"'The Kindle has increased awareness. Publishers have told me that in some cases the Sony 
numbers were double or triple to what they had been,' says Michael Smith, head of the 
International Digital Publishing Forum, which tracks e-book sales."

I've noticed increases in sales of some of my ebook editions the past couple of months 
(although, interestingly, not in Mobipocket format sales), so perhaps all the publicity about 
the Kindle has indeed stimulated interest in ebooks and people are finding the current 
generation of mobile devices more satisfactory for reading them than those of a few years 
ago.

I was surprised to read that "'The market is very narrowly confined, to New York and 
Seattle and to a few people who travel and read a lot,' says Frank Daniels III, chief 
operating officer for Ingram Digital, a leading e-distributor."

Living in Seattle as I do, I haven't noticed anything to make me think interest in ebooks is 
any greater here than elsewhere in the U.S.  Specifically, I have yet to see anyone reading 
on a Kindle.

John Landahl
InfoStrategist.com
Seattle, WA


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