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ebook sites
(updated April 4, 04)
1. FictionWise,
multi formats one stop
shopping site, include non fiction and exclusive short fictions.
2. BlackMask,
the best free ebook site in several
formats.
3. PeanutPress, award winning ebook store
for PDA, friendly DRM solutions.
4. Execubook,
eSummaries that deliver wisdom. Perfect for PDA users.
5. eBookAd, many indies label are here
6.
Univ. of Virginia
Library, Free ebooks
7. FreeeLiterature dot com,
classics for free
8. Memoware, free documents from
volunteers.
9.
ESSPC, great place to
start your collection (Free)
10.The Online Book Page,
from U.Penn. new
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Recommended eBooks from my ebook shelf
(April 04)
(email me for 10%
off coupon)
1.
Don't Know Much About History
2.
Dirty Little Secrets
3.
Killing The Buddha
4.
The Get With the Program! Guide to Fast Food and Family Restaurants
5.
Flirt Coach
Pocket
PC eBooks
Bestseller List
(Jan-Mar 04)
1.
Star Trek Series
2.
Angels and Demons
3.
Holly Bible NIV ed.
4.
The
Da Vinci Code
5.
Deception Points
6.
Letters to Penthouse XIX
7.
Letters to Penthouse XVIII
8.
Resolutions
9.
7 Keys to Weight Loss Freedom
10.
Against All Enemies
Pocket PC eBooks Watch - eBook and beyond
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UnCool
The E-Book Market: Hot Or Just Lukewarm?
You may have heard how rich you can get from e-books, but the numbers say 'no'
Ipsos-NPD, Inc. reported that e-book sales represented a tiny 0.1% of the $5.2 billion in adult book sales in the United States during the first 6 months of 2001. That's less than half a million e-books out of a total of 548 million books sold during the first half of this year. As recently as December 2000, IDC (Framingham, MA), an industry analysis and market data firm, estimated that e-Book sales would total $9 million in 2000 and grow 160% per year to $414 million through 2004. What happened?
And IDC now estimates that e-book device sales worldwide will total just 153,000 for 2001 and 1.7 million for 2004 incredibly low numbers considering there are 6,189.5 million people in the world now -- 273.1 million of them in the United States.
The high cost of dedicated e-book readers is a big hurdle for the market, especially when most e-books can be read on desktop or laptop computers. IDC Analyst Susan Kevorkian says that Microsoft and Adobe e-book readers are the "biggest inhibitors of the dedicated e-book device market right now." Both companies offer free e-book reader software downloads that can be installed on PCs, laptops, and, in the case of Microsoft Reader, handheld devices (Pocket PC 2002 only).
Baker of Wahmpreneur Publishing, Inc. points out that, "People also aren't willing to pay much for an e-book. In spite of the lack of ongoing production costs [for e-books], publishers stand to sell more books if they go with print on demand."
Link comes from eBookAd.com
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