Posts Tagged ‘ books ’

Harry Potter most popular ebook as Kindle books outsell paperbacks

Tweet This week Amazon announced that it is now selling more ebooks online than paperbacks. The announcement adds new perspective to the popularity of e-readers and the way we consume literature. In a company press statement Amazon revealed that: “Since the beginning of the year, for every 100 paperback books Amazon has sold, the Company [...][ READ MORE ]

2010 Online: the year in review

Tweet I can scarcely believe that a whole year has passed since I was sitting here writing the 2009 review, but 12 months to the day here we are, and it’s been another fascinating year in the digital world. Once again I have cherry picked the best blog posts from the year which have either [...][ READ MORE ]

Bee keeping and the Beehaus

Tweet Monday mornings are never the most cheerful time of the week, but mine are often brightened up by perusing our list of the previous week’s fast moving search terms. This morning the term that brought a smile to my face was ‘beehaus’, the name of a trendy new beehive aimed at attracting more people [...][ READ MORE ]

Online retailers receiving less traffic from paid search, but more from social networks

Tweet The amount of traffic that online retailers receive from paid search – i.e. from sponsored or paid for links on search engines such as Google, Yahoo!, Live and Ask – has fallen over the last 12 months. During March 2009, 8.9% of all UK Internet visits to online retailers came from a paid search [...][ READ MORE ]

Searches for e-books double

Tweet Over the last year UK interest in e-books has grown significantly, with searches for ‘ebooks’ doubling between January 2008 and 2009. There are four main e-book readers currently available: the Amazon Kindle, the Sony Reader, the Borders iLiad, and the Bookeen Cybook V3. In the US the Kindle e-book reader sold out within a [...][ READ MORE ]

Google Book Search on the rise

Tweet Recently, Google announced that it has released an API which enables websites to link to the books within its Google Book Search functionality. This allows users to preview the book in question in a similar way to the ‘search inside’ feature used by Amazon. Over the last four weeks, Internet visits to books.google.co.uk have [...][ READ MORE ]