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Originally Posted by ellenoc
I wonder how the boycott is doing. If I'm interpreting things I've seen here and there correctly, ebook sales were up 127% for April (I think April) over the same month last year. However, ebook sales in April 2010 were less than in March 2010.
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That doesn't surprise me. Although I'm sure they weren't the juggernaut that Amazon is, Fictionwise and eReader (and a few other ebook sites) had to have been responsible for a decent percentage of overall eBooks sales. Since they don't have the Big 5 anymore, that's going to impact overall sales. I've spent $19 in the last 11 weeks - I would have spent $80-100.
Even before the Big 5, my sweet spot was $6-8, and I was willing to try an unknown author with a decent blurb for $5 or less. And with WiFi on my iPhone, I was much more impulsive than I had been with my PDAs.
Now I check my local library and the eNYPL for impulse reads, and have only purchased 2 books from must-buy series.
I did notice I'm reading more nonfiction and literary fiction because of the OverDrive catalog my libraries offer, vs. my old standby, genre fiction.