Comments on: E-books continue to grow significantly, sales reached $113 million in 2008, up 68.4%.

By: Amit Sehgal

Amit Sehgal — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 07:20:04 +0000

Check out this site http://www.bookase.com, A price comparison search engine for books and textbooks. It searches for the lowest prices among the major online stores worldwide and also offers discount coupons. You can also choose among various shipping options to calculate the lowest price

By: Lacey

Lacey — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 00:04:28 +0000

Of course textbook sales are up. The prices of textbooks are outrageous! I have to search online to buy my textbooks so I can avoid the astronomical prices at college bookstores. The best site I’ve found is http://www.bigwords.com. It’s easy to search and they compare the textbook prices from hundreds of reliable sites. I would never go back to shopping at college bookstores for my textbooks.

By: pond

pond — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 14:47:13 +0000

This is a great link, thanks! Looking back over the table of ebook sales going back to 2002, I see that the category sold more in every year than in the previous one, but that the percentage gains dropped. This isn’t surprising, since in 2002 only some 7,000 books sold, which is so small a number, it was pretty easy to jump to 2003’s 19,000, or + 170% … after that as the numbers swelled, big percentage jumps are harder to sustain…they went down to +53%, then +44%, +24%, +23%…

until…

2008 saw a jump of + 68%.

Got to be the Kindle, wouldn’t you think?

last year’s