Nook outnumbers Kindle in March, says Digitimes Research

[tomerico]

http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20100426VL204.html

[Tichy]

"the nook accounted for 53% of e-book readers shipped to US vendors"

I suppose Amazon's primary business is not shipping e-book readers to vendors. Without more information (% of kindles shipped to vendors as opposed to direct sales), the numbers are pretty useless.

[_zhqs]

Interesting info. When I have talked to authors to bring their work to Fifobooks, many were not even aware of the nook.

[ableal → _zhqs]

This ? FiFoBooks.com, a marketplace of DRM-free ebooks, http://fifobooks.com/

The DRM-free part is interesting, the iTunes-style Mac/PC app apparently needed to buy, or even see prices ... not so much.

But news of how it's coming along, if there's some you can publish, would be interesting.

[_zhqs → ableal]

We have now updated fifobooks - the entire catalog is browsable on the web, and you can buy and download books (epub, mobi, or mobi dx). Because you download the ebook file, you can put it on any ebook device imaginable, including mobile phones such as Blackberry and iPhone.

[_zhqs → ableal]

"the iTunes-style Mac/PC app apparently needed to buy, or even see prices ... not so much."

watch this space.

[ableal]

These are interesting numbers. This posted teaser says:

Worldwide shipments for 2010 will reach 11.40 million units, up from 3.82 million in 2009

If you click through the ad for the paid report (goes here: http://www.digitimes.com/Reports/Report.asp?datepublish=2010... ), it has a neat index, prefaced by:

Digitimes Research estimates that in 2008 worldwide e-book reader shipments were only 700,000 units, with Amazon and Sony being the major vendors.

(so, Y/Y 2009 = 5.4, 2010 = 3)