Monday, January 2, 2012

For Libraries and Publishers, an E-Book Tug of War - NYTimes.com


LAST year, Christmas was the biggest single day for e-book sales by HarperCollins. And indications are that this year’s Christmas Day total will be even higher, given the extremely strong sales of e-readers like the Kindle and the Nook. Amazon announced on Dec. 15 that it had sold one million of its Kindles in each of the three previous weeks.
E-books and audio books on the Web site of the New York Public Library. Publishers are waiting for an industrywide approach to e-lending to gel.
But we can also guess that the number of visitors to the e-book sections of public libraries’ Web sites is about to set a record, too.

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