Comments on: Looks Like a Million To Me: How I Realized that Amazon’s Kindle and Sony’s E-Reader Were Exceeding Sales Estimates http://blog.oup.com/2008/06/ebooks-2/ Academic insights for the thinking world. Thu, 29 Sep 2016 03:15:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.6.1 By: Friday Procrastination: A Goodbye Link Love | OUPblog http://blog.oup.com/2008/06/ebooks-2/#comment-2678177 Fri, 14 Aug 2015 10:18:08 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=1874#comment-2678177 […] prediction that the Kindle would sell a million units in the first year by Evan […]

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By: The Pitfalls of Publishing's E-Reader Guessing Game - Tools of Change for Publishing http://blog.oup.com/2008/06/ebooks-2/#comment-306997 Wed, 31 Oct 2012 17:59:50 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=1874#comment-306997 […] OUP Blog: “How I Realized that Amazon’s Kindle and Sony’s E-Reader Were Exceeding … […]

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By: Lea http://blog.oup.com/2008/06/ebooks-2/#comment-154087 Thu, 29 Oct 2009 07:36:32 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=1874#comment-154087 I think there is a new update of the topic you presented here about the two sites. Anyway, thanks for sharing your thoughts.

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By: eReader Sales Estimates – all eReaders « Kindle Review – Kindle 2 Review, Books http://blog.oup.com/2008/06/ebooks-2/#comment-153179 Tue, 18 Aug 2009 19:06:17 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=1874#comment-153179 […] alternative method would be to do what Evan Schmittman at Oxford University Pressdid i.e. use numbers from PVI. That would indicate […]

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By: Kindle Sales Charts – Analyst Estimates « Kindle Review – Kindle 2 Review, Books http://blog.oup.com/2008/06/ebooks-2/#comment-153114 Sat, 15 Aug 2009 21:48:55 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=1874#comment-153114 […] 9, 2008 – Evan Schnittman of Oxford University Press Blog. 500K kindles in 2008. 1 million kindle and Sony. Based on eInk shipments of 60-80K units per month […]

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By: Best of… « Black Plastic Glasses http://blog.oup.com/2008/06/ebooks-2/#comment-152351 Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:31:55 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=1874#comment-152351 […] but at the time, most people thought 50,000 units would be the total Kindle sales. Check out Looks Like a Million to Me and see how I figured it all […]

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By: 080610 Daily Links (June 10, 2008) | johnsumser.com: Recruiting News and Views http://blog.oup.com/2008/06/ebooks-2/#comment-150654 Tue, 19 May 2009 04:07:48 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=1874#comment-150654 […] Looks Like a Million To Me: How I Realized that Amazon’s Kindle and Sony’s E-Reader Were Exceedi… Is Anyone Thinking About eBooks as Sourcing tools? Smart market segmentation, good candidate pool development potential. They are bigger than you think. (6% of Amazon’s book revenues?) […]

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By: Ebook Reader Fan http://blog.oup.com/2008/06/ebooks-2/#comment-149370 Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:37:20 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=1874#comment-149370 Here is an interesting statistic this post got between 10 and 20 times more comments than the other posts that in itself says something. But June 2008 is a bit old, is there any plan to update the figures?

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By: purple motes » the fate of traditional print media http://blog.oup.com/2008/06/ebooks-2/#comment-149336 Tue, 17 Feb 2009 00:50:25 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=1874#comment-149336 […] on mobile devices.  Sales of e-book readers from Sony and Amazon (Kindle) may have totaled a million in 2008, or perhaps a half-million.   Amazon recently announced Kindle 2.  It includes text-to-speech […]

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By: Talk-talk: What I didn’t say at the Maemo Summit at Internet Tablet Talk http://blog.oup.com/2008/06/ebooks-2/#comment-147511 Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:21:53 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=1874#comment-147511 […] e-books sold by Amazon or Sony for reading on their black-and-white e-Ink devices. Something like one million Sony Readers and Amazon Kindles will be sold this […]

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By: Kindle & Sony Reader Update : OUPblog http://blog.oup.com/2008/06/ebooks-2/#comment-146951 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:09:49 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=1874#comment-146951 […] week two announcements were made that support the claims made by yours truly regarding sales of Kindles and Sony Readers, and the corresponding rise in […]

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By: Kindle & Sony Reader Update : OUPblog http://blog.oup.com/2008/06/ebooks-2/#comment-146950 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:06:06 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=1874#comment-146950 […] week two announcements were made that support the claims made by yours truly regarding sales of Kindles and Sony Readers, and the corresponding rise in […]

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By: bestwish http://blog.oup.com/2008/06/ebooks-2/#comment-146768 Sun, 06 Jul 2008 11:52:56 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=1874#comment-146768 Very good resources for both amazon kindle and sony ebook reader,this is useful to me.Thank you.

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By: lgude http://blog.oup.com/2008/06/ebooks-2/#comment-146473 Sat, 21 Jun 2008 03:22:56 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=1874#comment-146473 I certainly like the idea of ebooks but they have to be in a generic format so I can store them on my computer and search them as well as on the reader. I roll my own by cutting the backs off a paper book and running it through a sheet fed scanner – the Fujitsu Scan Snap – since you ask. Then I use Adobe Standard to OCR and mark up the result with searchable sticky notes. The free PDF-X-Change viewer duplicates the mark up tools available in Adobe Standard so you can make notes with either and read them in either program on multiple devices. I use an Asus eee for easy chair or in bed reading. A tablet PC at other times. Ellen Hage of http://www.techusers.org/ has been using ebooks for years and is a goldmine of experience. And yes proprietary is the big issue both with book format and hardware.

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By: Warren Adler http://blog.oup.com/2008/06/ebooks-2/#comment-146382 Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:43:31 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=1874#comment-146382 As a pioneer in promoting the concept of the e-book, I’m a bit confused about why Amazon and the SONY reader people are not revealing how many Kindles and SONY readers have been sold and how many are in the pipeline. Perhaps they don’t want to publicize their success and shake up an industry that is facing a revolutionary challenge to their business model and give them more time to adjust to the juggernaut that is coming their way. I have long contended that once the e-book becomes user friendly and more and more readers discover that content trumps all, those who believe that the feel of the paper book and its long and familiar use will never be challenged will be on the losing side of history. The e-book has taken off big time and the pent up demand will be astonishing to publishers who have long believed that their cozy sinecures and old fashioned way of doing business would remain secure for all time. Having suffered through the early days of the e-book, even after I bet the bank and put all of my books in electronic formats, I am now quite comfortable that the e-book will one day become the instrument of choice for reading all forms of word content running the gamut from novels to textbooks, to illustrated books to combining music and video to accompany the words, and everything in between. Actually, the e-book could be a boon for publishers who might double their content production and save millions on production and warehousing costs allowing them to concentrate solely on the core business of providing content. They will also discover that readers will buy even more content if the wares are easy to obtain and cost a lot less. I have written several blogs on this topic, the most recent of which can be found here: http://warrenadler.blogspot.com/2008/05/e-book-has-arrived.html.

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By: Anu http://blog.oup.com/2008/06/ebooks-2/#comment-146364 Sun, 15 Jun 2008 17:44:22 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=1874#comment-146364 @Linda W: Most of the features you mentioned wanting are already available for the Kindle. You’re right, very often you don’t want to store a book on the Kindle forever. Thus Amazon lets you delete the book from the device and lets you redownload it from their server whenever you want. Several newspapers and magazines are already available for the Kindle. Only the other day I read Ellery Queen’s Mystery Mag on it (a sample issue). The pricing scheme is quite sensible as it allows you to read a sample of a book, or 2 weeks worth of a magazine or newspaper before committing to anything.
The part of this article that really stood out to me was where Jeff Bezos said that Kindle users buy books at 2.5 times the rate of other users. I’ve found this to be very true, because I find myself buying books every three or four days rather than every three or four weeks. It also helps that I don’t have to worry about storage space for these books as I can’t be sure of living in one place for a very long period. And of course there’s the sheer thrill of finding a book on one subject, getting obsessed with that subject, finding yet another book on it and downloading it instantly. You really ought to give it a shot.

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By: kindle world » Blog Archive » Looks like Amazon’s Kindle will be the game changer. Sales are up http://blog.oup.com/2008/06/ebooks-2/ http://blog.oup.com/2008/06/ebooks-2/#comment-146345 Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:19:47 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=1874#comment-146345 […] Looks like Amazon’s Kindle will be the game changer. Sales are up http://blog.oup.com/2008/06/ebooks-2/ […]

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By: Friday Procrastination: Link Love : OUPblog http://blog.oup.com/2008/06/ebooks-2/#comment-146336 Fri, 13 Jun 2008 12:48:51 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=1874#comment-146336 […] Love”, url: “http://blog.oup.com/2008/06/links-16/” }); Happy Friday to all. I hope you caught Evan’s column at the beginning of the week and our Dawkins podcast. Here is some more reading to […]

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By: Supertruth http://blog.oup.com/2008/06/ebooks-2/#comment-146319 Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:57:00 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=1874#comment-146319 It is difficult for me to believe that there is a reasonable market for ebooks. The current readers make it difficult to absorb information, especially with technical books. And educational e-books are also difficult to deal with. I do not think that the e-book market will be significant until there is a better reader.

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By: Noticias Edición Digital » Blog Archive » Do you Kindle ? http://blog.oup.com/2008/06/ebooks-2/#comment-146314 Thu, 12 Jun 2008 12:51:43 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=1874#comment-146314 […] Kindle”, mais en attendant que les millions de Kindle bouleversent les internautes (voire les supputations d’Evan Schnittmann, explicitées par Virginie, qui estime à un million les ventes de Kindle d’Amazon à partir […]

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By: != » e-book rundown http://blog.oup.com/2008/06/ebooks-2/#comment-146291 Wed, 11 Jun 2008 21:40:11 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=1874#comment-146291 […] “Looks Like a Million To Me: How I Realized that Amazon’s Kindle and Sony’s E-Reader Were Exceedi…,” Evan Schnittman, a VP of Biz Dev and Rights for Oxford U Press, estimates that, “[b]y my […]

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By: E-book sales… up, up, up, the ziggurat! « The UWTLIT Weblog http://blog.oup.com/2008/06/ebooks-2/#comment-146290 Wed, 11 Jun 2008 20:40:00 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=1874#comment-146290 […] Jump to Comments Evan Schnittman, over at the Oxford University Press (USA) blog predicts that sales of Amazon Kindle and Sony Reader sales will reach 1,000,000 units next […]

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By: Curt Mudgeon http://blog.oup.com/2008/06/ebooks-2/#comment-146285 Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:22:38 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=1874#comment-146285 Give me the musty smell of old paper any day.

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By: kindle world » Blog Archive » Read this article: http://blog.oup.com/2008/06/ebooks-2/ - Wondered to myself why I’d want to buy a Kindle when I have an iPhone? http://blog.oup.com/2008/06/ebooks-2/#comment-146277 Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:49:08 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=1874#comment-146277 […] this article: http://blog.oup.com/2008/06/ebooks-2/ – Wondered to myself why I’d want to buy a Kindle when I have an […]

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By: A few of the items I read on 06/10/08 http://blog.oup.com/2008/06/ebooks-2/#comment-146258 Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:28:14 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=1874#comment-146258 […] Looks Like a Million To Me: How I Realized that Amazon’s Kindle and Sony’s E-Reader Were Exceedi… (tags: amazon book e-books kindle sony ebooks) […]

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