Foyles of London to stock ereaders
By Paul Biba
Independent bookseller, Foyles, will begin stocking Sony Touch and Pocke ereaders and the BeBook Mini 5" reader. Additionally, the bookseller will open its own ebook webstore with 57,000 titles in EPUB and PDF formats. The ebook supplier, Gardners, will set the prices and Foyles will establish the discounts.
Given the earlier KPMG survey that says that about 4% of 1,000 British consumers surveyed have read an ebook in the past month, it makes sense for the independents to get into this market.
You can read more at The Bookseller.
October 29th, 2009 at 9:07 am
4% of the British public have WRITTEN an ebook? I knew they were smart and all, but…
Good for Foyles, anyway…
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Moderator’s note: Paul meant to say READ in the past month. Still, at the rate things are progressing, maybe the statement will be true in the next decade. You never know. Meanwhile we’ve fixed the post. – D.R.