Comments on: Trade stats from IDPF http://www.teleread.org/2009/04/23/trade-stats-from-idpf/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:19:30 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Michael Pastore http://www.teleread.org/2009/04/23/trade-stats-from-idpf/comment-page-1/#comment-1042587 Michael Pastore Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:41:13 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/?p=20762#comment-1042587 More ebooks are sold in Japan than in America, thanks to the "cell phone novels" called ketai shosetsu. From zero sales in 2001, sales of these serialized novels rose to 10 billion yen -- around 82 million American dollars -- in 2006. The Economist (magazine) says: "It may not be literature, but it sells. Mica Naitoh, a popular keitai author whose bestselling book had 160,000 downloads a day, says many of her readers never even buy old-fashioned books." Sales of ebooks are still a small compared with print books, but ebooks sales are growing at a rate much faster than print-book sales. Does anyone know how much faster? Michael Pastore 50 Benefits of Ebooks More ebooks are sold in Japan than in America, thanks to the “cell phone novels” called ketai shosetsu. From zero sales in 2001, sales of these serialized novels rose to 10 billion yen — around 82 million American dollars — in 2006.

The Economist (magazine) says: “It may not be literature, but it sells. Mica Naitoh, a popular keitai author whose bestselling book had 160,000 downloads a day, says many of her readers never even buy old-fashioned books.”

Sales of ebooks are still a small compared with print books, but ebooks sales are growing at a rate much faster than print-book sales.

Does anyone know how much faster?

Michael Pastore
50 Benefits of Ebooks

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