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The March of the E-books
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Great news. I bet publishers are ecstatic.
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06-04-2012, 05:05 PM | #3 |
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Seems like the predictions of the MMPB's extinction are coming true. From what I've heard, they've mostly died in Britain.
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Yes but what else are they going to sell? You're not going to fill a whole bookstore with hardbacks and a B&M store can't really sell e-books. Just because they're there doesn't mean that their sales haven't gone down-it just takes a long time to die.
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06-05-2012, 09:14 AM | #9 |
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The stores I've run and worked for are a little more pragmatic than that... if MMPB sales were dying that drastically then they'd be selling other things... there's still a large chunk of the overall retail decline that is due to the brilliant state of the world economy rather than imminent death...
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From the perspective of the CEO and owner of Canada's largest bookstore company:
Thanks to taming for posting this originally... Audio interview with Heather Reisman of Chapters-Indigo Look at the far right, toward the bottom: http://www.cbc.ca/books/index.html This interview is long, but worth listening to if you want a perspective from the CEO of a Big Box chain of bookstores. Reisman runs Chapters-Indigo in Canada, but I'm guessing that what she has to say applies to other chains in other countries. Toward the end there is a discussion of the decision to sell Kobo to Raskuten. Original thread: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=178882 Last edited by Cdesja5; 06-05-2012 at 09:42 AM. |
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06-05-2012, 10:57 AM | #12 |
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Three things stand out:
1. Even with agency pricing, hardcover sales still lost share vs ebooks 2. Again with even with agency pricing, ebook prices in general did not increase. 3. The ebook share of the book market more than tripled. |
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06-05-2012, 12:00 PM | #15 |
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What I meant is that the average price of ebooks didn't go up. Agency priced books did increase.
Ebooks went from 2% of the market (and 4% of sales to 7% of of the market (and 14% of sales). That means that the average unit price apparently didn't increase. Now I am not a statistician, so I could be wrong on this. |
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