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'The Lost Symbol' by Dan Brown for Kindle outselling hardback edition
Oh those times they are a changin'! According to the statistics at the time of writing in the Amazon US best-selling books list, 'The Lost Symbol' by Dan Brown for Kindle is outselling the equivalent hardback!
Kindle Nation notes that the situation may well change as time goes on and particularly as the holiday season approaches (when the book will certainly sell extremely well as a gift), however I think that what we are seeing is almost a 'coming of age' of the eBook - consumers realising that they can get their books more conveniently, cheaper and of course instantly - a huge plus when you're rushing to get the newest best-seller from a huge author like Dan Brown.
Bear in mind that as you can see in the above screenshot, not only is the Kindle version of the book outselling the hardback edition, but it is outselling every other book in any form in Amazon's store. Impressive!
Unfortunately we don't have any numbers that detail what percentage of the copies sold are delivered to iPhones and iPods rather than the Kindle devices themselves, but I suspect that if we did, a large percentage would be going to the non-Amazon devices.
Who knows how huge the book sales would be if more platforms have a Kindle reader...?
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Subscribe to commentsvfurlenderSep 17th 2009 3:29PM
If the e-book is beating the print book in the mystery category, why isn't it the same case in the general category?
http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/books
sodapopSep 17th 2009 3:31PM
I pointed this out on another blog yesterday ...
1) There are at least 3 Kindle version sales blurbs on the hardcover page
2) The hardcover is not available and marked as import
http://www.amazon.com/Lost-Symbol-Dan-Brown/dp/0385504225
3) The paperback price is almost twice the Kindle price
...at certain point, Kindle sales will reach a critical maximum.
These stats are essentially meaningless.