Taylor & Francis, Springer and public domain are the biggest sources of Kindle books, says Kindle News blog
Quick! Who are the six biggest suppliers for Amazon’s Kindle e-book store, which has 90,000+ titles (books and otherwise)? According to Kindle News, the companies are:
- Tayor and Francis: 14,976 titles.
- Springer: 12,640.
- The public domain: 7,380.
- Harper Collins Ebooks: 3,231.
- Fictionwise: 2,130.
- Oxford University Press: 2,021.
Not as much representation as you’d expect from, say, Random House or Simon & Schuster, eh? Read Kindle News’ full post for more names and stats. I’m delighted to see this breakdown. Thanks to KN’s Humayun Kabir! Gang, what does it mean when Jeff Bezos would love to make the Kindle the norm for reading public domain books—and is DRMing them to the gills? Or when heavily academic and scientific publishers make up such a hefty chunk of the Kindle list?
Meanwhile I wonder if many books from brand-name publishers might be on Amazon but not show up in the study because of connections through distributors. I don’t know. Kindle News puts the number of Kindle books from Wiley at just 105. But Joe Wikert, a Wiley exec who writes the Kindleville blog, says in a comment that the number is much higher.
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