A digital Albom through Kindle

Submitted by Blake on July 19, 2008 - 11:55am
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Porco reiterated Amazon.com's claim — a surprise to some publishers — that Kindle downloads from early June through early July made up 12 percent of total sales for the more than 100,000 books available both through the e-book reader and in traditional form. In early June, at the annual booksellers convention, Amazon.com head Jeff Bezos said Kindle sales were 6 percent of the market for books in both formats.

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Submitted by Walt on July 19, 2008 - 12:56pm.

"The text of his speech, less than 4,000 words, is brief for a traditional book"

Well, yes: By the most common definitions, that's short story length (up to 7,500 words).

On the other hand, it will be interesting to see whether Albom can tell us something about real sales for something so inexpensive it's an impulse buy ($0.99), clearly short enough for e-reading, and written by a name author. I'm not holding my breath for Amazon to release any Kindle sales figures.