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Comment: Stanza Counts One Million Downloads

Jan 12th, 2009
by gav.

mediabistro.com: GalleyCat is reporting that:

Lexcycle recently revealed that their iPhone and iPod Touch e-book reader had been downloaded one million times in 2008

It seems that people who have their internet, email and the other brilliant apps on their iPhone are also using it to read from. That includes me.

It also links to the Bookseller which has Sony’s sales figures for the Sony Reader since October 2006.  The figures seem quite healthy at 300,000 units and 3 million titles downloaded from it’s online store from a range of 57,000 titles.  So that’ll be US only book figures. It also seems that Waterstones is quite happy with it’s sales so far.

This is against an estimate of 400,000 US only Kindles sold by Amazon.com.

Overall it looks like digital ebooks, with a little luck and a good wind are slowly taking off.

What would help I think is finding a cheaper entry level price point and maybe selling books on SD cards so that people that aren’t so tech savy can load up a book like a Nintendo DS.

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