Le Kindle fait 10% des ventes de livres aux Etats-Unis - Etreint. La photo donne un air messianique à l'objet : le Kindle DX, nouvelle génération du lecteur numérique créé par Amazon.
Ses prédécesseurs ont représenté 10% des livres vendus aux Etats-Unis au premier trimestre 2009, apprend-on aujourd'hui par eMarketer. Sur 38 millions de bouquins vendus au cours des trois premiers mois outre-Atlantique, 4 millions l'ont été au format numérique, sur un de ces petits terminaux blancs. Est-ce une bonne ou une mauvaise nouvelle pour l'édition ? Générateur d'intérêt ou destructeur de valeur ? Selon des estimations de la société de conseil Piper Jaffray, le chiffre d'affaires mondial du Kindle (commercialisé pour l'heure qu'aux Etats-Unis) s'élèvera à 405 millions de dollars fin 2009 et plus que doublera en 2010.
Piper Jaffray justifie ses prévisions de quelques éléments qualis : 5% des sondés indiquent avoir déjà vu un lecteur électronique et envisager d'en acheter un. Kindle Book Count - March & April 2009. I’ve been counting books in Kindle Store on a daily basis and now the time to share results: When I first started counting on the 2nd of March 2009 there were 242,488 books in the Kindle Store.As of the 12th of May 2009 there are 281,986. 39,498 books in 71 days.So on an average day 556 new books are added to the vast collection already available to Kindle owners.If the pace remains constant there will be 411,606 books in the Kindle Store by the end of the year.Target of 300,000 books is estimated to be hit on the 13th of July June, 2009Target of 400,000 books is estimated to be hit on the 10th of December, 2009 Lets wait and see how accurate these predictions will be.
So far as you can see from the chart below the pace has been quite constant If you are interested in what kind of books are these take a look at the next chart (click to zoom in) If you add up the numbers you’ll notice that the sum is more than 281k. I’ll make a habit of posting these statistics every month. Wholesale eBook Sales Statistics. The International Digital Publishing Forum collects quarterly US trade retail eBook sales in conjunction with the Association of American Publishers (AAP).
For details on the AAP's statistics program, please refer to the AAP website. The IDPF has aggregated quarterly statistics from the AAP's program and earlier IDPF statistics program represented in the graph below. Please also see important notes below on the data. The IDPF has collected additional eBook statistics from various sources below. The IDPF was not involved in collecting these statistics, however, and only includes them as a convenience. US Trade Wholesale Electronic Book Sales Q3 2010 = $119.7 Million Compare Q1 - Q3 2010 ($304.6 M) vs. 2002 - 2009 Annual Trade Wholesale Sales Quarters 2002 through Q3 2010 Important Notes About Collection & The Above Graph The data above represent United States revenues only The data above represent only trade eBook sales via wholesale channels. Book Sales Statistics - Amazon Sales plus Barnes&Noble, Borders.
Subscribe to my publishing blog with weekly updates by Email The following current year information about book sales is taken from the annual reports, SEC filings and company press releases for the full year from Barnes&Noble, Borders, Amazon.com, and BN.com.
International sales numbers for Borders and Amazon not included. Amazon is now the biggest book retailer, both in North America and overseas, Borders went into Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2010 and announced on July 18. 2011 they would close their remaining stores, which were liquidated before the end of 2011. Full year 2013 sales statistics won't be available until Barnes & Noble reports, normally in May or June. Note that government reported sales for book retailers hit its lowest level since 2002, and adjusted for inflation (graph at bottom of page) bookstore sales (excluding online) are way down . The 2014 update is now in progress with Amazon's 2013 report. Book sales from the US Census Bureau Included in survey: