Re: Interesting AP news story about Kindle and the ebook market

--- In [email protected], "John Landahl" <jlandahl@...> 
wrote:

> "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."

I wonder who actually said this and what they based it on?  I imagine 
it is more likely to be true for very top and very bottom sellers but 
I suspect it is not based on hard data so much as hope and 
enthusiasm.  My month sales of ebooks is typically in the hundreds, 
over a thousand copies some months.  My total sales through kindle 
since its inception would be about 3 copies.

> 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."

Hmm.  I think he might have what might best be called 'an overly 
narrow view' of what the ebook market is if he thinks is is mainly to 
do with people who travel alot and live in two cities in America.  I 
should think, for example, he is overlooking the worldwide ebook 
market for romance, erotica, niche fiction and non-fiction, self-help 
etc.

As such I would discount opinions this individual offers as rather 
narrowly based to epublishers focussed on selling to e-Sony readers 
who spend a lot of time in airports.  (I happen to be one such person 
but don't live anywhere near new york and so would still be excluded 
from his vision of the marketplace).


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