06-23-2008, 03:24 PM | #1 | |
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The Amazon e-book sales guessing game continues
There's nothing like silence to get tongues wagging. The refusal of Amazon to reveal how many Kindles or e-books the company has sold has morphed into a major guessing game. Analysts have taken sides, and this week, Steve Weinstein of Pacific Crest hinted that global e-book sales at Amazon could reach $2.5 billion by the year 2012. PaidContent reports:
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Related: Amazon Kindle projections overrated?, PVI revenues drop - weakening e-paper orders, E-books are three years behind MP3s |
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06-23-2008, 03:42 PM | #2 | |
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06-23-2008, 03:44 PM | #3 |
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I know that the pace that *I* buy books has gone up since aquiring my PRS-500. Hell, I'd have switched to Kindle already if it supported the Sony reader format. Even if teh Kindle is ugly as sin. Our CEO has a Kindle. Maybe I can con him into playing show and tell with it.
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06-23-2008, 04:11 PM | #4 |
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I can see e-magazines having that same impact... magazines are really more analogous to the MP3 market than books, IMO. And if they do, they will probably bring e-books along for the ride.
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06-23-2008, 04:41 PM | #5 | |
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I agree with you though, I've bought about 50 books since switching to the Reader, which is about about double what I would have spent in pbooks over the same amount of time (6 months). |
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06-23-2008, 05:00 PM | #6 | |
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06-23-2008, 06:54 PM | #7 | |
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06-23-2008, 06:57 PM | #8 | |
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I am already purchasing books much like I purchase music now ... and the iPod really increased my music purchases ... probably 100 fold. So, for me, and possibly only for me, the analogy works. |
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06-23-2008, 10:44 PM | #9 |
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The problem with the analogy is that, in my honest opinion, not nearly as many people read as listen to music. Virtually everyone listens to one form of music or another. I am not sure that is true of reading.
Take this for example, I just finished moving houses. A large percentage of the boxes I had to move were my library. I had a couple of kids helping me and when they asked why the boxes were heavy, they seemed shocked that someone would own books, let alone boxes of them. |
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06-24-2008, 02:46 AM | #11 | |
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I think the stumble stone of the analogy beyond what rcr62 (
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Despite all efforts of gutenberg and similar communities, you still cannot place a book into a 100-300$ scanning-device and have it digitized (without manual work) automagically in nearly every PC. So you still cannot buy a book physically as a cd and copy its content on a mediaplayer. And guess why the music industry seems to have found their heart again for vinyl-record collectors ? - you still want a digital copy of the content and you'll pay for it as long as you are no tech-addicted. |
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06-24-2008, 03:24 AM | #12 |
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The main problem, as I see it, with the magazine market is that many "mainstream" paper magazines get a very large proportion of their income from advertising as well as from actual magazine sales. I wonder how effective advertising is on the current generation of eBook readers, and how many of their current "paper" advertisers would be willing to transfer that revenue to an electronic format?
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06-24-2008, 05:13 AM | #15 |
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