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banjomike · 07-31-2011, 02:43 PM

DON'T KILL ME. I'll explain.

I've just started to read "The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Eighth edition" by Gardner Dozois and in the summary of the year he writes (my bold):

"The big story in 2010 was the explosion in e-book sales, something that some industry commentators have seen coming for a long time now, but which has come to a boil faster and more extensively than almost anybody predicted that it would.

This market started to accelerate in 2007, with the introduction of Amazon’s Kindle, the first portable e-book reader, but the lid really blew off this year when Amazon lowered the purchase price for the Kindle down to $139, with the introduction of competing devices such as Apple’s iPad and Barnes & Noble’s NOOK, and with the founding of “online bookstores” by Apple, Barnes & Noble, and Google where products for these devices can be purchased. Amazon has announced that the third-generation Kindle is the bestselling product in its history, having sold “millions” (no exact figures are available) in 2010 alone, and the NOOK is similarly Barnes & Noble’s biggest seller in its forty-year history; Apple’s iPad—which has other functions, so it is technically a touch screen media tablet rather than an e-reader, but you can still read e-books on it, and that’s probably a fairly common use for it—sold 3.27 million units in its first three months after its April 2010 release, and is projected to hit 28 million units sold in 2011."

You can read the item here on Amazon, click on Look inside and search for Kindle. As a matter of interest Sony isn't mentioned.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS...9505/sfsi0c-20

It annoys me that an editor can start an analysis of a year in an industry with a bit of duff data. Not to mention the Kindle pricing doesn't apply in the UK, $180 for WiFi.

07-31-2011, 02:43 PM	#1
banjomike Addict Posts: 319 Karma: 397404 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: UK Device: PRS-505,DSlibris,nook Glow & HD+,Tab S2,Moon+,Clara,Clara Colour	Kindle was the first e-book reader DON'T KILL ME. I'll explain. I've just started to read "The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Eighth edition" by Gardner Dozois and in the summary of the year he writes (my bold): "The big story in 2010 was the explosion in e-book sales, something that some industry commentators have seen coming for a long time now, but which has come to a boil faster and more extensively than almost anybody predicted that it would. This market started to accelerate in 2007, with the introduction of Amazon’s Kindle, the first portable e-book reader, but the lid really blew off this year when Amazon lowered the purchase price for the Kindle down to $139, with the introduction of competing devices such as Apple’s iPad and Barnes & Noble’s NOOK, and with the founding of “online bookstores” by Apple, Barnes & Noble, and Google where products for these devices can be purchased. Amazon has announced that the third-generation Kindle is the bestselling product in its history, having sold “millions” (no exact figures are available) in 2010 alone, and the NOOK is similarly Barnes & Noble’s biggest seller in its forty-year history; Apple’s iPad—which has other functions, so it is technically a touch screen media tablet rather than an e-reader, but you can still read e-books on it, and that’s probably a fairly common use for it—sold 3.27 million units in its first three months after its April 2010 release, and is projected to hit 28 million units sold in 2011." You can read the item here on Amazon, click on Look inside and search for Kindle. As a matter of interest Sony isn't mentioned. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS...9505/sfsi0c-20 It annoys me that an editor can start an analysis of a year in an industry with a bit of duff data. Not to mention the Kindle pricing doesn't apply in the UK, $180 for WiFi.