With the Kindle and the Nook continuing to do well, and going well past the ’40,000 total eReaders sold’ prediction experts had made in 2007, we are running into a completely different issue. What price should books be? Is the Agency Model justified? Is it winning? There are so many differing opinions on this that it seems like a possibility sword [...]
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Thanks to Joe Siegler and Roger Knights for writing in about a very interesting post by Mark Cuban on How Amazon will/should/could probably do a Netflix for ebooks. Thanks to Kitty for a link to The 26 loans limit on ebook lending by libraries. These two posts are linked by the fact that they cover opportunities to [...]
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This will definitely be the last post for a while on Kindle Store sales rankings and the rise of low-priced books – In case you’re getting tired. Yesterday, we looked at how 48% of books in the Kindle Store Top 100 are at or below $5. Today we’re down to 45 books at or below $5 in [...]
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It’s interesting to see how low-priced books are gradually taking over the Kindle Store. You can fill your Kindle for a lot less now than what it would have cost you a few years ago. The Race to $1/$5 Let’s do a quick comparison between 2008, 2010, and 2011. Please Note: In 2009 free books were included [...]
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It’s a question worth asking. Reasons Borders’ bankruptcy is a bad sign for both Amazon and B&N It shows a weakness in physical book sales and both Amazon and B&N are still heavily dependent on physical books. An aphorism about falling tides and shipwrecked boats would be awfully convenient. Without physical books there’s nothing to keep [...]
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