Cool graphic of the ebook market
By Paul Biba
Eric Engleman sent me the following email:
I’m a reporter covering Amazon.com/Kindle for TechFlash, a technology news website in Seattle. We just put together a cool graphic mapping all the players in the expanding electronic book market. I wanted to pass it along to you in case it is of interest. We did it as a resource for ourselves to track all that’s going on in the space, and realized it might be useful for others interested in e-books as well … .
If you go to the TechFlash site you will find not only a link to a larger version of the graphic, but also to a PDF version that has embedded links to news stories and other information about each of the companies listed. They alos ask for your feedback about anything they’ve missed.
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September 18th, 2009 at 2:43 pm
Interesting… but nowhere near the entire “universe.” As they left out most of the independent e-book sources, those similar to MobiPocket and Fictionwise, I’d say the graphic is very incomplete. And what about the Big Pubs that have gone e-book and sell independently… where’s Penguin, Tor, or Baen, or Harlequin? These transform the graphic because they provide additional inputs into almost every device on the board, and really flesh out others: For instance, the present map shows exactly one arrow into Windows Mobile, when in fact WM devices can buy e-books from dozens of big sellers and untold numbers of indie sellers.
This is more of a map showing a number of gas giants, while missing out on the rest of a very big solar system…