Volume 253 Issue 39 10/02/2006

E-books By the numbers

by Staff |

Sep 29, 2006

$350: Price for the Sony Reader

$98.99: Price of Ebookman 901

$24.95: List price for Cesar's Way hardcover

$17.95: e-book list price

$14.36: Price for Cesar's Way on Sony Connect

$16.16: Discount price for Cesar's Way on ereader.com

10,000: Number of e-book titles available for Sony Reader at launch

2,000: Number of e-books supplied to Sony by Penguin

17,000: Number of e-books available through ereader.com

19,000: Number of free e-books available through Project Gutenberg

2 million: Number of free e-books downloaded monthly from Project Gutenberg

350: Copies of Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases downloaded from Project Gutenberg on September 28, the most popular title that day

$179 million: AAP estimate of e-book sales, 2005

$123 million: AAP estimate of e-book sales, 2004

A version of this article appeared in the 10/02/2006 issue of Publishers Weekly under the headline:

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