From the article: "Amazon announced that in the US since the start of the year it had sold 115 e-book downloads for every 100 paperback books, even excluding its downloads of free books."
I'm surprised Amazon only has 20% of the physical book market. I'd have thought it was higher than that, especially now B&N have collapsed.
What can also be found in that article is that, whilst e-books are outselling paperbacks, paperback sales are also up. So, the increase in e-book sales is clearly not at the expense of physical book sales, and pronouncing the death of the physical book seems very premature.
That's Amazon's share of paperback sales. The other link today about market share has some figures on book sales over the last decade, which look pretty static.
With B&N dying it's not surprising that Amazon are growing larger.
I still see no grounds for pronouncing the death of the physical book. That requires figures showing that sales of paperbacks overall have declined significantly.
In terms of book sales, Amazon are rather smaller than everyone seems to think. They punch above their weight in mindshare, but books aren't Amazon's real focus or profit centre -- they make much more money through sales of white goods -- and the real deal is their combined sales database (with third party online suppliers often forced to go through Amazon just because of said customer mind-share) and to a lesser extent their fulfilment system for those items they actually stock.
Interesting. I guess it's because the vast majority of the people I know order the vast majority of the books from Amazon that it seems like they're the centre of the world for books. Easy to mistake that for the way the general public actually uses them. Thanks!
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"Amazon announced that in the US since the start of the year it had sold 115 e-book downloads for every 100 paperback books, even excluding its downloads of free books."
I'm surprised Amazon only has 20% of the physical book market. I'd have thought it was higher than that, especially now B&N have collapsed.
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With B&N dying it's not surprising that Amazon are growing larger.
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No, as in 'are included in Amazon's sale statistics for eBooks allegedly'.
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