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Electronic books getting their day at last
AFTER YEARS of being "the next thing to happen in publishing" e-books seem to be finally taking off.
And Amazon.com's Kindle device is credited with giving the format a lift.
The $359 Kindle got a sudden boost when it was mentioned on the Oprah Winfrey Show as a must-have gadget. Unfortunately the popularity caught Amazon on the hop and drained all its stock until February.
This left an opening for the rival reader from Sony, which is rated a better device by many. It launched a huge advertising campaign, which appears to be paying off. Sony's sales had tripled this festive season and the kit, which used to be found only online, is making its way into chain stores.
Steve Haber, president of Sony's digital reading division, said that e-reading really is starting to take off.
Sony's PRS-505 Reader starts at $300. We don't know it if is doing better than the Kindle because Amazon will not say how much it has sold. Some think Amazon might have sold a million of the things.
Publishers say that the sales of eBooks are still tiny and make up one per cent of sales. However Harper Collins, Random House and Simon & Schuster think that things are starting to pick up. The numbers of actual sales have quadrupled in 2008.
Apple has also thrown its cock into the ring with the Iphone which has spawned several software programs for reading e-books on the device.
Unfortunately Apple has a habit of demanding squeaky-clean language from books so it is unlikely to ever attract any best sellers. µ
L'Inq
CNET
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Our research says eBook sales are growing 400% year over year (our sales increased 1600% in one quarter!) compared to the paper book industry which is decling 1% per year.
Publishers will flock to eBooks in the next 5 years, led by the textbook market, where the captive student audience, and the audience most likely to embrace carrying their textbooks on their computers rather than in heavy bookbags.
We carry 160,000 eBook titles that can be read on the common readers like the Sony.
Working on the iPhone thingy.
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You did not make a mention of Foxit's ebook reader - eSlick. This one is priced below Kindle and Sony (which is always more expensive). Which is also a reason why the ebook reader market seems to be witnessing a revival...
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Right on the money, friend.
...like Bill Gates actually never charged anyone for stolen version of Windows. Decently, do you know anyone?
I bit of different thought. Get a great resolution monitor, 24-30 inch in size or so, or get 60-80 inch HDTV connected to your PC, and you will almost never read any paper books. I realized that 25 years or so when first digitized books appeared. Since that I sometimes buy those damn paper books mostly for kids but so much regret every time that they are not in digital format when we can take ALL OF THEM anytime anywhere we need them.
You know this? Russkies were much progressed in driving those formats because they translate and distribute almost ***everything*** valuable free of charge in Ruissian and Putin does not fines them.
I got one of the Ectaco Jetbooks for Chrimbo, very impressive little thing and about half the price of the Kindle, admittedly no wifi but then where I live there ain't any available anyway.
While it might seem nice, real books never need batteries, can be read just about anywhere. I see the cost prohibitive as well as cost of the books. Plus what are you gonna fill your shelves with or prop up that table that wobbles?
We have researched eBooks and believe sales this year are $50M. The paper based book market is $25B, so that means eBooks are .002 (.2%). Anyway, the percentage GROWTH is what you have to look at. Visitors to our site www.contentrealtime.com grew 324%!!!! over recent periods, check with those paper book publishers and see if they are getting that kind of exponential growth. We predict eBooks will overtake paper in less than 10 years.
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$300-plus for the reader?
Better give me $300-plus cumulative lower price for the books in short order!
The author's a Brit. Cock in this case is a fighting rooster :P
Thrown it's what?
webscriptions.net. Exploding spaceships for $15 for a full month's output from Baen publishing, multiple formats, all open. For over 9 years now. Been there, done that.