Showing posts with label Books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Books. Show all posts
Tuesday, 19 July 2016

'Romance' accounts for 45% of US eBook sales

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Source:   The Digital Reader, 16th July 2016
Monday, 14 September 2015

Only 2 of Amazon's 20 all-time best-selling were published before the Kindle was launched

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"The importance of e-books to Amazon can be seen in a few different ways. Of Amazon’s 20 all-time bestsellers (in any format), only two...
Thursday, 7 August 2014

Reach of physical media in the UK by age

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Source:   Ofcom's 2014 Communications Market Report, released 7th August 2014 More  here
Thursday, 5 June 2014

Anna Todd's One Direction fan fiction has had over 800m views on Wattpad

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"In the latest book acquisition to come from Wattpad, the popular online writing and reading community, Simon & Schusters’s Gallery...
Monday, 2 June 2014

Amazon has 65% share of all US new book sales

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"Research conducted in March by the Codex Group found that in the month Amazon's share of new book unit purchases was 41%, dominati...
Tuesday, 15 April 2014

Sales of George Orwell's 1984 rose 6,000% following the Edward Snowden revelations

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"Sales of George Orwell's 1984 have shot up following revelations that the United States' National Security Agency (NSA) is acc...
Friday, 17 January 2014

50% of adult Americans have an e-reader or a tablet

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Click to enlarge Source:   Pew Internet & American Life Project, 16th January 2014
Monday, 21 October 2013

35% of Americans own a Tablet

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Source:   Pew Internet & American Life Project, 18th Oct 2013

The growth of online bookselling

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Amazon on The Global Transition to Online Bookselling (Russ Grandinetti at Launch Frankfurt 2013) from Publishers Launch Conferences ...
Monday, 16 September 2013

Charles Dickens made no money from the sale of his books in America

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"Now suppose that someone sees there’s money to be made from books, and decides to print and distribute my book themselves, without any...
Wednesday, 27 March 2013

26% of Americans own a laptop, a smartphone and a tablet

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"Twenty-six percent of consumers are digital omnivores (own a laptop, smartphone and  tablet). Tablet ownership increased 177 percen...
Wednesday, 9 January 2013

10% of the films at Sundance in 2012 were funded through Kickstarter

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"Let's begin with some numbers In 2012 2,241,475 people pledged a total of $319,786,629 and successfully funded 18,109 projects B...
Friday, 4 January 2013

33% of American adults own either an eReader or a tablet

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Click to enlarge Source:   Pew Internet and American Life Project, 27th December 2012
Monday, 26 November 2012

Amazon UK had sales of £2.91 billion in 2011

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"Amazon's UK net sales were £2.91bn in 2011, according to information the retailer has been required to file with the House of Comm...
Friday, 26 October 2012

The three bestselling products on Amazon globally are Kindles

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"“Our approach is to work hard to charge less. Sell devices near breakeven and you can pack a lot of sophisticated hardware into a very...
Friday, 21 September 2012

Revenues from digital books rose 89% Y-o-Y in the first half of 2012

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"The Publishers Association’s Sales Monitor shows that the total invoiced value of digital fiction books sales reported by participatin...
Friday, 14 September 2012

Apple & Amazon quarterly profits compared

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Click to enlarge Source:   Read Write Web, 10th September 2012
Wednesday, 8 August 2012

Fifty Shades of Grey reached 35 million people more quickly than Instagram did

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Earlier today I saw a stat quoted (with no source) on Quora: "50 Shades of Grey grew to 35 million 'users' more quickly than ...
Tuesday, 7 August 2012

Fifty Shades of Grey is the best selling book in UK history only 14 months after publication

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E.L James' FIFTY SHADES OF GREY becomes the bestselling British book of all time! The trilogy has sold over 12 million copies nationwid...

eBooks outsell physical books on Amazon UK

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"Amazon.co.uk has said that sales of its Kindle ebooks are now outstripping its sales of printed books. Underlining the speed of chang...