Nook operation to a supermarket chain, the signs are not very positive at all. On top of that, when one reads that Barnes & Noble has so little faith in ebooks and its Nook that it has sold its U.K. Essentially, all ebooks are self-published to a host of book retailers, including Apple, B&N, and Kobo.īut judging from their numbers above, which are way, way less than 10% of Kindle’s catalog, it is just not making much headway at all. Smashwords has established itself as the primary aggregator of ebooks in the publishing industry. Only Smashwords is open enough to state the number of ebooks they have published.īut, when you consider that the bulk of self-published titles available on retailers other than Amazon Kindle are aggregated via Smashwords or Draft2Digital, these numbers tell a story. Kobo, Apple iBooks, Barnes & Noble Nook, and Google Play don’t openly advertise the total number they have in their ebook catalogs. Well, it’s all very difficult to know for sure. So how many ebooks do the other major retailers have? The following information was originally published some time ago but has been updated where possible. So take the 6 million I could verify back in mid-2018 and add a million or more for every year after that. My best guess now would be that well over one million new Kindle books are published per year. But I would be more inclined to think that the number is much, much higher. Now, without access to definitive data, I can only estimate that every year, 600,000 new ebooks are published, at the very least. In mid-2018, I could check reasonably accurately, and there were over 6 million ebooks in the Kindle store. It equates to nearly 70 ebooks every hour. It equates to 7,500 new Kindle books per day!īut even at a minimum of 50,000 per month, that means at least 1,670 new Kindle ebooks are published every day. The conclusion you can draw from this method is there are at the very least 50,000 new Kindle ebooks published on Amazon every month.īut the number of 30,000 newly published Kindle ebooks in the first four days of a month is telling. I waited for a few weeks and got this result on the fourth day of the following month. It seems that Amazon stops every monthly count at 50,000.īut I didn’t give up. Again, the result was over 50,000 ebooks.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |