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James Patterson and Sue Grafton…
I’m fascinated by how Amazon.com is marketing their Amazon Kindle electronic book reading device. I frequently check out their top ten chart for hourly Kindle downloads and that says a lot. Amazon is supposedly selling Kindles at a clip of about 50,000 devices per month in 2009 according to one analyst. (Amazon won’t reveal the exact numbers).
Part of the attraction is that Kindle users can currently download all sorts of free content at Amazon. Publishers must be striking all kinds of deals with Amazon to get their content made available through free Kindle downloads.
Currently 8 of the top 10 book downloads for the Kindle are free downloads. Charlie Huston’s novel “Already Dead” is topping the list. That’s a free Kindle download. The only authors cracking the top ten who are actually charging Kindle users for downloads are James Patterson and Sue Grafton.
Patterson’s “I, Alex Cross is at #8. Grafton’s “U is for Undertow” is at #9. And both books are actually declining in Kindle downloads at the moment. Amazing.
From the electronic book front I’m Vick Mickunas….
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