30 December 2011
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Kindle fuels best Christmas yet for Amazon
Amazon have announced that Christmas 2011 was the 'best holiday ever' for Kindle book downloads. But in usual Amazon fashion, cold hard figures to fill in the whole picture are not forthcoming. ...
In a late contender for least surprising news of the year, Amazon have announced that Christmas 2011 was the 'best holiday ever' for Kindle book downloads. But in usual Amazon fashion, cold hard figures to fill in the whole picture are not forthcoming.
Good news for authors comes from the info that among the top selling Kindle titles, the first and fourth placed books were published independently, through Kindle Direct Publishing: Darcie Chan's Mill River Recluse and Chris Culver's The Abbey.
Other titbits announced in the Amazon holiday round-up were:
• The online retailer sold over 1m Kindles each week of December
• Giving of Kindle books as gifts was up 175% on last year
• Print purchasers in the US bought enough copies of Walter Isaacson's Steve Jobs biography to create a stack higher than Mount Everest
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