The program enables O’Reilly to boldly shift from a traditional inventory and capital intensive business model to an on-demand program that selects the most timely and cost effective method to print and distribute books, allowing consumers full and immediate access to all of O’Reilly’s titles. O’Reilly is now able to increase their title and channel availability, substantially reduce inventory, free up resources to invest in content development and increase revision speed, keeping the most relevant content available in the market.
According to Association of American Publishers (AAP) sales figures, eBook net sales increased by 115.8 percent, up from $32.4 million to $69.9 million.
At the same time both adult mass market paperbacks and hardcovers lost sales.
via mediabistro.com
То есть теперь в Америке каждый день продаётся электронных книг больше, чем в России за весь прошлый год (70 млн против 2 млн долларов).
А вот весь книжный рынок в США упал на 2%.
If copyright is violated, it’s not theft (depriving someone of their work); it’s infringement. When infringement occurs, publishers and authors can seek relief, generally payment for unauthorized use. Changing the law, however (which is what the Authors Guild hopes will happen), should depend on an assessment of adverse impact.
Books uploaded to file-sharing sites are an infringing use. They represent (in my world) an “instance of piracy”. Someone did something with book content they should not have done.
ebooks represent about 88% of our unit sales, and 79% of our dollar sales on oreilly.com. What is really impressive is that the growth of our digital products is moving faster than the decline of our print products. This suggests to me that we are not seeing one product type cannibalizing another — rather they are supplementing each other.
via radar.oreilly.com
«Электронные книги — 88% продаж в штуках, 79% — в деньгах.
Brick-and-mortar booksellers like Borders, second in size only to Barnes & Noble Inc., have battled competition from Internet-only retailers such as Amazon.com Inc. and the advent of digital books and e-readers.
via online.wsj.com
644 магазина. Вторая по величине книготорговая сеть США.
At HarperCollins, for example, e-books made up 25 percent of all young-adult sales in January, up from about 6 percent a year before — a boom in sales that quickly got the attention of publishers there.
“Adult fiction is hot, hot, hot, in e-books,” said Susan Katz, the president and publisher of HarperCollins Children’s Books. “And now it seems that teen fiction is getting to be hot, hot, hot.”
E Book Sales Hold Steady At Nearly 9% of Trade Book Sales
E-book sales from participating reporting publishers continue to grow, with a 112.4 percent increase over October 2009 ($40.7 million) compared to $19.2 million in October 2009. January-October 2010 year-to-date E-book sales are up 171.3 percent reaching $345.3 million compared to 127.3 million from January-October 2009.
via publishers.org
Не хило.
Q3 2010 = $119.7 Million
via idpf.org
То есть с начала года — $304,6 млн. То есть Forrester и правда осторожничает.
от Gilbane Group раздаёт Aptara. Отчёт отчасти рекламный, отчасти — просветительский. Но местами любопытный - с оценками объёма рынков по темам и регионам.
Согласно представленным результатам, которые приводит журнал The Bookseller, продажи е-книг на территории США в минувшем июле принесли 40,8 миллиона долларов по сравнению с 16,3 миллиона долларов в июле 2009 года. Предыдущий рекорд продаж за месяц составлял 31,9 миллиона.
pro-books.ru
40 млн долларов — это примерный объём продаж всех бумажных книг за неделю в России.