There are currently 91,626 books available in Amazon for the Kindle as of today.

Let's track it and see how often Amazon updates/adds new books...might be interesting.

So...let's post when there is a change.

I actually checked this yesterday and the total books listed was 91,560.

Friday, Nov. 27, 2007 = 91,626 Results

whoops it was started today.

Bear in mind that this number includes short stories and various articles.

Interesting....just a few hours later and it's 91,633. It's neat to see that books are being continually added.

By the way, I'm looking under the "Books" section only. Let's not get wrapped around whether they are short stories or not. :unafraid: What I'm interested in is how much new content is being added. :crowngrin

I've been tracking Sony's total offerings by category at two weeks intervals since September and will continue to do so. It might be useful to tabulate this info together somewhere for these two vendors and some others, as well.

Good idea vivaldi! The more both stores grow the better it is for all of us.

also bear in mind it may include books uploaded by non-publishers, has anyone researched if those are included or in a separate section? I know some people have already uploaded their own works for sale.

also bear in mind it may include books uploaded by non-publishers, has anyone researched if those are included or in a separate section? I know some people have already uploaded their own works for sale.

i did. it was fun. but you don't want to buy it, i just published a page from my web site.

and if you think about that you begin to see perhaps some rationale for the levy article. some no-name like me actually gets 'published'. at least using of definition of 'published' that someone could actually buy something i'd written.

that one fact alone may convince me to keep my kindle in spite of everything else screaming for me to return it and get an asus instead ... [g]

/guy

November 24, 2007: 91,698

Well, if you go to the Kindle Books section on Amazon and change it to sort by publication date so the newest stuff is first and then page thought it for a while it becomes clear that a lot of this is rubbish.

I suspect Amazon will keep touting the number of books they offer in a somewhat Stalin-esque "quantity has a quality all its own" way, but I don't think this is the best metric to use to evaluate the amount of useful content that's available.

I think the bestseller lists (which they're obviously working hard to provide) and number of books by popular authors, and percentage of books you'd find at your local Borders would all make better measures of the growth of the Amazon ebook store over time.

Z.

Well, if you go to the Kindle Books section on Amazon and change it to sort by publication date so the newest stuff is first and then page thought it for a while it becomes clear that a lot of this is rubbish.

I suspect Amazon will keep touting the number of books they offer in a somewhat Stalin-esque "quantity has a quality all its own" way, but I don't think this is the best metric to use to evaluate the amount of useful content that's available.

I think the bestseller lists (which they're obviously working hard to provide) and number of books by popular authors, and percentage of books you'd find at your local Borders would all make better measures of the growth of the Amazon ebook store over time.

Z.

You are right on here. Quality means everything when it comes to selection of books, music, movies and just about everything else.

It would be grreat if someone could quantify the number of most popular or quality numbers of publications between Amazon and Connect. I would be most interested in that kind of information.

It would be grreat if someone could quantify the number of most popular or quality numbers of publications between Amazon and Connect. I would be most interested in that kind of information.

Me, too. But how? For Amazon, I can only see totalling the number of books in each category, much the way I'm doing now for the Sony site. For Sony, I could add the number of book award winners and nominees they offer since these are listed separately, although that's still a bit of work. I don't see any easy way to quantify quality further at either site. But if you have any ideas, let me know. Otherwise, you're right - they can offer a lot of trash but who cares?

24 November 22:08 , 2007: 91,710

Well, if you go to the Kindle Books section on Amazon and change it to sort by publication date so the newest stuff is first and then page thought it for a while it becomes clear that a lot of this is rubbish.

<del>

i do have to say that i don't consider my submission 'rubbish'. i was helping edit a book of fairy tales for a friend and wrote my own fairy tale. but it didn't fit the 'style' of the book, so i just put it up on my web page until now. i really do think it's worth the 99-cents i priced it at (well, maybe 49-cents might have been better, but there were already a million seletions at that price point), price chosen on the basis of what one song costs at apple itunes store.

/guy

91,852 Kindle books available.

I was curious myself, so I see 92,221 showing today. At least 20 pages of those are pre-releases...

Edit: They're playing games. Five minutes later, they show 91,938, and sorting by pub date doesn't show all those pre-releases.

92,694 current

In last couple of days, amazon has added more than 800 kindle edition ebooks. However, here is disturbing story about how they are distributed among different categories: http://www.kindlenews.info

don't forget that any joe can now publish books....and this will be added to the Kindle list.

Of the twelve I've tried, only two were in Kindle form. I kind of expected that with 92,000, wow, anything i wanted would be kindleable.

94,107 as of Dec 11, 2007

The number of available ebooks is irrelevant. What is relevant is what ebook are available that you actually want. Before you purchase a reader of any kind, go look at the various online shops and see what you find and then make your choice. Without the content, the reader is just a doorstop.

The number of available ebooks is irrelevant. What is relevant is what ebook are available that you actually want. Before you purchase a reader of any kind, go look at the various online shops and see what you find and then make your choice. Without the content, the reader is just a doorstop.

Not entirely. I'd say the basic premise of "supply and demand" operates here. A greater number of books would increase the sales of the Kindle. Higher sales of the Kindle will drive up demand on content.

Not entirely. I'd say the basic premise of "supply and demand" operates here. A greater number of books would increase the sales of the Kindle. Higher sales of the Kindle will drive up demand on content.

Unless there's a market backlash over the extremely low signal-to-noise ratio. That goes to reputation and loss of customer goodwill.

Besides the same forces affect every other e-book reader as well. In fact, for the health of the industry overall, I would track the multi-format offerings at Fictionwise and the other vendors not tied to a specific unit.

Do we really want ebook vendors playing these kinds of number games? Adding content for content sake, no matter what the editorial control?

For example, any ebook vendor can add tens of thousands of "titles" to their catalog by picking up self-published books published by the likes of Xlibris or iUniverse from LSI. But these titles are typically so poor that you will find multiple spelling errors on every page. There is zero editorial control.

By focusing on the amazon title counts, which by the way do include tons of self-published items, are we forcing every ebook vendor to compete with these numbers by adding a lot of muck that is not worth reading?

Just a thought.

I was looking at the Kindle store this morning, and sorted them by publishing date and was surprised that there weren't a lot more self-published books there. Although there were a number of classics available elsewhere for free, most were good solid books. Also some of the apparently self-published books actually looked interesting.

I've read though that you can't preview the self-published books by reading the first chapter, that's disappointing if true.

I was looking at the Kindle store this morning, and sorted them by publishing date and was surprised that there weren't a lot more self-published books there. Although there were a number of classics available elsewhere for free, most were good solid books. Also some of the apparently self-published books actually looked interesting.

I've read though that you can't preview the self-published books by reading the first chapter, that's disappointing if true.

How do you know which books are self-published? There are numerous "vanity presses" who do ebooks, like Xlibris, FirstBooks, iUniverse (actually i believe FirstBooks renamed themselves iUniverse to try to avoid detection as a vanity press). These companies take a fee, usually a few hundred dollars, to accept any book no matter how bad, then put those books through the major ebook feeds.

The titles may look very interesting. But your interest soon dissipates as you find the writing is pure gibberish with 2 to 5 spelling errors on each and every page. I'm not saying every single one is like that, but I have investigated some of these books and a goodly percentage really are that bad.

How do you know which books are self-published? There are numerous "vanity presses" who do ebooks, like Xlibris, FirstBooks, iUniverse (actually i believe FirstBooks renamed themselves iUniverse to try to avoid detection as a vanity press). These companies take a fee, usually a few hundred dollars, to accept any book no matter how bad, then put those books through the major ebook feeds.

The titles may look very interesting. But your interest soon dissipates as you find the writing is pure gibberish with 2 to 5 spelling errors on each and every page. I'm not saying every single one is like that, but I have investigated some of these books and a goodly percentage really are that bad.

Well, of course I don't actually *know*, so I said apparently. I could have been clearer about that though. However, sometimes you can just tell based on the cover, the description and the price what's ilikely self-published. If it's something I'm really interested in and there's no sample chapter I'll probably google the author and book to see what comes up.

And I do expect a lot of the self-published stuff is trash (more the pity that they don't have preview chapters) but there's bound to be some gems in there. One I saw that interested me was "A Warlock's Words" by Ben Ezzell, I might just give something like that a chance based on the description. I'm assuming that he's self-published but again, don't actually *know* it.

http://www.amazon.com/A-Warlock%2527s-Words/dp/B001119ZFI/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=digital-text&qid=1197640513&sr=1-4

94,254 as of Dec 21, 2007

95,949 as of Jan 4th, 2008

96,965 as of Jan 12, 2008

97,511 as of Jan 14, 2008.

99,667 as of Jan 30, 2008

99,667 as of Jan 30, 2008


100,209 as of Feb 3, 2008

And how many of them are duplicates? I did find 9 different versions of Moby Dick as an example.

Well there are only 1974 books listed as literary fiction and they're not all classics with multiple editions so I would think a fair number fewer than 1974.

105,028 as of Feb 5, 2008

107,467 as of Feb 22, 2008

109,405 as of March 3, 2008

110,686 as of March 11, 2008

114,351 as of March 21, 2008

116,126 as of April 4, 2008

117,161 as of April 17, 2008

If from the main Amazon menu you select "Books" then press the GO button the browser will display a screen that has categories on the left hand side. The categories, such as Non-fiction and Literature/fiction, contain the total number of books in each category. If you add the number of Non-Fiction and Fiction books you will get a total of 4,363,865 books available on Amazon.

If you do the exact same thing under "Kindle Store" you will get a total of 107,683 books available. This means a little less than 2.5% of their books are available as Kindle books. BTW, there are over three times as many "Law" books as there are Kindle books.

I'm not trying to be negative, as I love my Kindle, but we have a long way to go in terms of making content available on the Kindle.

One thing I wish Amazon would do is to provide a conversion service for publishers. The publisher sends them a paper copy of any book that has sold more than X copies in the last year, and Amazon scans, OCRs, and converts it into an ebook format for the publisher. This would be a smart move for Amazon because it would allow them to quickly make books available, and it would get the books into the AMZ format while not making the book available in competing ebook formats. If the publishers take care of the convertion process themselves they would most likely convert their books into all available formats. Why Amazon is not offering this service is beyond me.

There is simply no reason that books like William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders, Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, and Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged are unavailable.

Honestly I would be shocked if the publishers didn't already have electronic copies of all their recent works. That's how they're edited these days. They would need to be reformatted for the Kindle but that doesn't take a great deal of time in the scheme of things.

I don't understand why the Bestsellers list is always the exact same. ever since i've owned the device, that section has never changed.

I've had mine since November and I've seen it change quite a bit. Isn't the NYT list updated weekly. If you figure that many books spend more than one week on the list, I wouldn't expect it to alter drastically week to week.

I've had mine since November and I've seen it change quite a bit. Isn't the NYT list updated weekly. If you figure that many books spend more than one week on the list, I wouldn't expect it to alter drastically week to week.

Speaking of lists, I wish we could browse the store by lists for various literary awards and sales charts (i.e. hugo, philip k. dick, NY times, etc).

-d

That would be splendid.

119,030 as of April 26, 2008

120,537 now. Woohooo

123,491

124,776

124,674

We seem to be going backward.

Edit: Okay this is weird. If I use the default "bestseller" order I get 125,323 total. If I sort the books from "low-high" in price I get 124,674.

129,484

134,145

Wow this reminds me of the Opening of Battle Star Galactica except those numbers are usually going down!

JJ

139,949 Soon they can boast 140,000 books (right now they boast the 130,000)

143,922

146,457 on 7-26-08

The "quality" may be suffering however.

The "quality" may be suffering however.
In what way?

154,280

168,983 as of 8/30/2008

170,520 as of 9/05/2008

170,805

171,081 as of 09/05/2008, 15:46 GMT

173,950

181,863

2008.09.30 02:09 gmt

How many are dupes and self-published?

How many are dupes and self-published?

Duplicates have their own AISN number so they aren't really duplicates (same with paper versions). Self-published titles also have their own AISN.

I have found no way to separate the self-published books from those issued by publishing houses but my impression is that they are a very small percentage of the total.

You may want to send a note to Amazon and ask them.

How many are dupes and self-published?

I'd like to know that as well

I bought the Kindle for academic books - I need a large library and will probably be moving to a different country eventually. Bit of a leap of faith as the selection is currently quite poor. Anyway, I'm going to add a couple of semi-random searches to the lists here periodically to see how the more specialized part of their library is improving (unless anyone objects...)

Currently:

Manifolds 58
"riemannian manifolds" 13
"Complex Analysis" 65

That's pretty good growth from the last time I looked if I remember correctly. Not sure how the publishers are deciding on their priorities though - the number of books available may have increased, but none of the notable gaps I noticed last time have yet been filled.

precalculus 5
"college algebra" 2

I am *amazed* at the lack of undergraduate level titles. Amazon are really missing a trick here. Or, perhaps, greedy publishers are - do they not realise that it's in their best interests to promote these formats? After all, you can't resell a Kindle book at the end of the semester.

To be honest, since most academic eBooks are PDF, the new DR from iRex would be your best choice at the moment.

I may well be missing a huge ebook store somewhere (let me know if so!), but I can't say I've seen many of the titles I'd be interested in available in PDF, or indeed in any format/location other than at Amazon!

How many are dupes and self-published?

Exactly! Anyone can submit "a book" and Amazon will count it in the total Kindle books available. If they were to separate the published by authentic publishers vs. self-published, I think we might see how many titles are truly available. That said, Amazon does have quite a few 'real' titles!

Exactly! Anyone can submit "a book" and Amazon will count it in the total Kindle books available. If they were to separate the published by authentic publishers vs. self-published, I think we might see how many titles are truly available. That said, Amazon does have quite a few 'real' titles!


I was just about to post something similar :)

191,734

I just noticed that when I order the books from "low to high" pricing in the Kindle Store, nearly all of those very cheap (mostly porn-ish) titles have been removed. Less expensive classics are now showing up on page 2 instead of page 100 and something. I know people have been complaining about these titles and asking that they be separated out from the more normal titles. Looks like Amazon has listened.

I was on a Kindle site today and found an article where an Amazon spokesperson indicated that they realize the value of an ereader for students.
http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/amazon/archives/146874.asp

194,830

200,087

202,097

204,751

There are currently 91,626 books available in Amazon for the Kindle as of today.

Let's track it and see how often Amazon updates/adds new books...might be interesting.

So...let's post when there is a change.Why not include the count and timestamp of the last update in the thread title?

216,441

229,094

1/25/2009

Where are your numbers coming from?

If you look at the Kindle book store it displays: Showing 1 - 12 of 236,938 Results.

But I think there are multiple entries for the same book. Such as Uncle Tom's Cabin, it has 24 entries with a price ranging from $0.00 to $13.19.

The numbers are from the same source as you are citing. We have been saying for quite some time around here that the numbers are inflated with the same sort of things that you talk about in your post.


Btw, if you get your Public Domain books here, they are consistently better than those you get at Amazon. Our posters are much more conscientious about getting it right.

Btw, if you get your Public Domain books here, they are consistently better than those you get at Amazon. Our posters are much more conscientious about getting it right.

I have heard that. Once I get my Kindle I will surely checkout what is offered. I will probably need some hand-holding until I figure out how to get the Public Domain books transferred successfully.

240,149

240,149
Wow, I'm impressed by how fast the library is growing. How many books do you think will be there at the end of the year? http://g09k0221lebj272.imageshacknow.info/img/3036/p09p0222gpxf/anim_27.gif

Wow, I'm impressed by how fast the library is growing. How many books do you think will be there at the end of the year? http://g09k0221lebj272.imageshacknow.info/img/3036/p09p0222gpxf/anim_27.gif

Well if you take the last 2 data points and extrapolate you would get around 330,000 books at the end of the year.

Probably way off base though.

240,509

http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/979/kindlebooks.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Yipes,

That's looking like half a million by years end!!!

:eek:

Well that's a simple ploynomial fit, and it's entirely possible a linear trend is more realistic. That would get us to at least 300,000 by the end of year. But it's impossible to tell the difference between a polynomial and a linear trend near the beginning of the curve, so while it looks impressive, it's still speculation. :)

241,589

How long does it take to download a book? There are so many.... wow.

How long does it take to download a book? There are so many.... wow.

Depending on the strength of Whispernet in your area, less than a minute to a few.

242,244

243,433

That is over 1,000 e-books in a day and a half. There is no way they can keep that pace up... lol.

Yipes,

That's looking like half a million by years end!!!

:eek:

that would be great :D

Wow, that's great. The more the better.

244,127

245,230

247,083

248,349

249,366

250,034!

So, +/- on date they reach 500,000 and 1mil?

http://img530.imageshack.us/img530/979/kindlebooks.jpg

By the current trend, assuming it's polynomial and not linear, they're on track for 400K - 450K in December 2009, 500K by March or April 2010, and 1M by June or July 2011.

Thanks for the chart. Interesting to see what the "future" will look like ... sort of.
Has anyone noticed that some books that were available in the Kindle version are no longer available.??

Cool. In a few years the Kindle will be writing its own ebooks just to keep up.

no surpises when they smash million+ books

253,238

254,533

So, +/- on date they reach 500,000 and 1mil?

hopefully very soon :D

255,220

Seems likely that eventually Amazon will eventually run out of books to have eBooks for. The Google 500k is, after all, a lot of old books. Eventually, in the absence of making a deal with Google, will end up topping out at some point, when they run out appropriate books to digitize (coffee table books, color picture books, stuff that's a reprint or otherwise not current, etc.)

Anyone know the number of printed books for current sale on Amazon?

Anyone know the number of printed books for current sale on Amazon? An advanced search for new printed books in English returned 1,943,710 results. Many will have multiple editions and bindings. Restricting to hardcovers returned 795,209. All conditions (not just new) and all languages returns 18,029,871 printed books.

Anyone know the number of printed books for current sale on Amazon?

Books
Showing 1 - 12 of 26,531,262 Results

Although interestingly:

Format
Any Format
Printed Books (17,874,693)
HTML (1,120,117)
Audiobooks (646,283)
Kindle Books (118,856)
PDF (80,177)
Calendars (55,787)

So I'm not sure how it could list 26 million books but only 20 million or so under Formats. And the number of Kindle Books does not match the over 200,000 number.

258,078

Didn't Sony and Google team up recently. They have some sort of deal going on which will make like 500,000 e-books available on the Sony reader. I don't know all the details however.

260,358

New chart:

http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/979/kindlebooks.jpg

262,441

I need my bank account to grow this fast

Sirbruce's chart is starting to look linear.

It's been more linear recently, that's for sure. But like I said before, it's impossible to tell a linear trend from the low end of a curve.

263,416

267,847

269,391

Also, Amazon has changed their advertising from "over 250,000 books" to "over 265,000 books".

269,391

Also, Amazon has changed their advertising from "over 250,000 books" to "over 265,000 books".

In a few days it will be "over 270,000 books".

270,155!

In a few days it will be "over 270,000 books".

Yep, but they forgot to change the ALT text on the graphic. :smack:

273,108

okay I'm sold

275,003!

http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/979/kindlebooks.jpg

278,362

The Kindle Store has over 275,000 titles available, but with the introduction of the Kindle DX and its support of PDF files it means that 600,000 public domain titles from Google Books just became available as well.

(Not that we should change the focus of this thread -- I'm just pointing out another rich source of books that are now available).

280,030 books

281,463

283,193

Can you tell me where you get the number of kindle books? I used to see it when I clicked on Kindle Books at Amazon, but not now. Thx.

Can you tell me where you get the number of kindle books? I used to see it when I clicked on Kindle Books at Amazon, but not now. Thx.

Select "Kindle Store" from the Search pulldown, then click on the orange circle "Go". Look to the left for the numbers in each category.

284,101

285,000

Changes faster than the available space in gmail.

The numbers seem contradictory.

If you go to Kindle Books and click the "All" link (lower left) the results shows "Showing 1 - 12 of 284,617 Results" (as of 1:04PM Central Time).

However, if you count the totals from each category listing on the left, you get 553,866.

And if you go by the star ratings below the category listing you get 396,843.

I'm going to assume the sidebar areas duplicate counts for their categories and just say the count is the result of searching for all Kindle Books (284,699 as of 1:09).

Also, if you just hit Refresh the number changes (up and down).

You counted wrong because those individiaul categories are overlapping. Just add together "fiction" and "nonfiction"; that covers everything.

Yes, the number changes slightly between refreshes. I believe this is simply an aspect of how Amazon distributes its book database. It does not effect the data which accurartely shows the growth trend.

You counted wrong because those individiaul categories are overlapping. Just add together "fiction" and "nonfiction"; that covers everything.

I will assume you didn't mean that the way it sounds, because I didn't count anything wrong. All I did was add up numbers provided by Amazon - which I thought was clear in my previous post.

Even using your method, the numbers don't match. For example, adding only those two categories you get 285,010 and the "Results" count shows 287,365.

Now, I'll admit the difference between those numbers is probably not statistically significant. I just wanted to point out something I thought was unusual. I expected others to say things like, 'yeah, I noticed that too... it's odd' or something along those lines.

And there's still the matter of the "Avg. Customer Review" section that totals to 399,918. Again, I'm assuming there's an overlap in Amazon's counting of titles that causes that.

Any future post I make in here will only be the number you get above the list of books after going to amazon.com and choosing Books > Kindle Books, then clicking "All Kindle Books".

That number is currently 287,371.

291,513

New chart. All data points post-Kindle 2 launch are matching the predicted curve very well.
http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/979/kindlebooks.jpg

The trend is accelerating:
294,672

As predicted by the curve or more so?
:blink:

295,174

Sci-Fi 6,985

It was following the curve well but there was a 2.5K or so jump on the 29th.

297,331

We've passed 300K! The trend the past few days has been way faster than predicted.

300,955

Science Fiction = 7057!

I wonder if this surge is caused by new publishers jumping on board or if it reflects some increased automation of the ebook publishing process?

Or both?
:beer:

We've passed 300K! The trend the past few days has been way faster than predicted.

300,955

Maybe they are adding more DX compatible books?

302,074 earlier this morning. Since early June the trend went from about ~600 per day to over 1,000 per day.

304,947

Sci-Fi =7,417

Slowing down or is it my imagination?

:toff:

Back down to ~600 per day but the overall trend is still accelerating.

305,809

Less than 1,000 new books in the past 4 days; making up for the sudden increase the previous week?

I think it has to do with more people self-publishing. Now what would the actual numbers be without all the self-published eBooks?

I think it has to do with more people self-publishing. Now what would the actual numbers be without all the self-published eBooks?

What would the actual numbers be without all the self-published POD regular books? Those numbers are just as flawed as ebook numbers.

307,000!

And a new chart:
http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/5568/kindlebooks.png

Nice, half a mil is getting close.

I like that the website asks if I would send the publisher of a book I'd like to please offer it in the Kindle edition.

309,430

Sci-Fi = 7,350

:2thumbsup

I appreciate this. Exciting to watch. Just wondering how this compares to the total number of hard copy books on amazon.com? I heard there were around 3 million or so listed. But that may have been a rumor.

Amazon has something like 30 million books listed. But remember that the vast majority of these are NOT in print; they're just placeholders for selling used copies.

312,560

314,742

Ummm, this is unexpected, did I miss something?

All Kindle books 294,606

Science Fiction 6,796

:help:

321,615 as of this morning.

Where's sirbruce - no posts recently - here (with his graph) - or elsewhere?

332,186

sirbruce???

321,966 -- they lost 10,000 books.

Dang! They were just here! What happened to them? Lose my own head next...

SirBruce has been around, just not posting. Probably that old bugaboo, RL interfering with his MR time...

325,572

330,975

335,884

339,447

334,971 <-- lost nearly 5,000 books since Poohbear posted.

334,971 <-- lost nearly 5,000 books since Poohbear posted.

Whas' up? :blink: :eek:

Today = 335,542

My guess would be that Amazon is actually cleaning up the illegal posts a bit so every now and then the number drops. That, or they get rid of duplicate offerings. Who knows, really, since they are a closed system...

336,198 - they're coming back?

338,758

345,582

Today: 347,077
Apparently, some of this increase is due to pirated editions that were uploaded beginning on the 14th. Amazon is now removing their listings.

346,363... slipping...

346,363... slipping...

Maybe removing Harry Potter and other books posted by people without legitimate rights to those books?

350,091

348,952

350,238

351,437

354,133

355,467

356,188

357,724

seem to be stuck in the 350's - maybe the result of weeding out multiple versions of PD texts

Wow, I thought we would be past half a mil mark by now.

342,576 going down again

343,725

This makes you wonder just how much "junk" there is with dupes of PD books out there.

This makes you wonder just how much "junk" there is with dupes of PD books out there.

Just look, for ex., at Edgar Rice Burroughs, Jane Austen, or Charles Dickens - the number of PD versions is vertiginous! :eek:

FYI... I keep the count on a daily basis and publish it every month on my blog (http://blogkindle.com/category/kindle-book-count/).

358,865

i just found out about amazon a few days ago http://image-h0ster.info/picserver245/images/smilie.gif and I can't believe the amount of books it has!

359,829

361,955

363,406

365,120

366,749

368,851

373,264

A lot slower lately.

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Today is the anniversary of the first post made to this thread. On 11-23-2007 there were 91,626 books available in Amazon for the Kindle. A year later, on 11-21-2008 there were 202,097. Today it is 381,982. Next year I predict it will be well over half a million.

Today is the anniversary of the first post made to this thread. On 11-23-2007 there were 91,626 books available in Amazon for the Kindle. A year later, on 11-21-2008 there were 202,097. Today it is 381,982. Next year I predict it will be well over half a million.

I second that prediction. Even if textbooks fail to thrive. :2thumbsup

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Still haven't broken 400k? Amazon needs to start publishing the out of copyright books itself. Could push it over 600K over night.

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I wonder has anyone done similar tracking for the Canadian Kindle store?

I'm in the decision process right now, and one of the reasons I was hesitant about getting the Kindle is because several of the books I initially did a search for, weren't available in Canada but were in the US store.

When Amazon first started selling Kindles to Canadians they used the promotional phrase "over 300,000 books available".

That was just what, about 3 weeks ago. Now that phrase has been replaced with "over 310,000 books available" and I just checked and the number is 314,291.

If they have truly added over 10,000 books in just the few weeks since its release, then likely, the books I want but aren't showing yet will likely turn up before too long. ...it's getting tougher to not get a Kindle. :)

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400,000 by Christmas?

400,000 by Christmas?

A lot of this recent growth in number has been the addition of "Pre-Order" titles- now through March or April 2010.

But overall there has been a slowdown.

Europe: 318,594

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It is going to be close... not sure if we will hit 400K by Christmas. By New Year for sure.

If they keep adding short stories to the SciFi catagory at the current rate, it could top 400K by New Year.

399,159 - almost there! To 400K!

400,021 - for USA buyers :2thumbsup

400,021 - for USA buyers :2thumbsup
Woo Hoo!:thumbsup:

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Boy are they loading up the SciFi section with individual short stories - helps to skew the numbers a bit.

405,553 - now being padded by "pre-orders" into August 2010.

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Any guesses for when we hit 500,000?

I am going to say July 1st.

Pre-orders & short stories published individually (esp in Sci Fi) are driving up the numbers rapidly. The newly announced 70% royalty offer may accelerate book numbers as well. Your guess may be on target.

Any guesses for when we hit 500,000?

I am going to say July 1st.

That seems reasonable.

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I wonder if our running total took a hit with the removal of the Macmillan books (I don't think they have been added back yet).

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Macmillans are back

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Macmillans are back

They sure are :2thumbsup

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I predict one million when the royalty rate hits 70 percent, including some huge authors going out on their own...

Scott Nicholson
http://hauntedcomputerbooks.blogspot.com

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