Q2 E-Book Sales Leave Previous Records in Splinters

Everybody loves the bearer of good tidings, and Michael Smith, head of International Digital Publishing Forum, is due for another fuerte abrazo thanks to his tidings of another record-setting month and quarter for e-books.

Trade eBook sales were $14,000,000 for June, more than double last June's $5,900,000. in fact June was the biggest e-book month ever; the prior record setter was April '09 at $12,100,000.

Second quarter wholesale trade sales reached $37,600,000, exceeding by about one third the $25,800,000 reported for the first quarter of this year.

As we've stated before, the true sales numbers may be even higher than the above chart indicates. Smith reminds us that:The true sales numbers may be even higher than the above chart indicates.

Michael Smith, Executive Director of IDPF (International Digital Publishing Forum) reminds us that:
This data represents United States revenues only
This data represents only trade eBook sales via wholesale channels.

Retail numbers may be as much as double the above figures due to industry wholesale discounts. This data represents only data submitted from approx. 12 to 15 trade publishers
This data does not include library, educational or professional electronic sales
The numbers reflect the wholesale revenues of publishers
The definition used for reporting electronic book sales is "All books delivered electronically over the Internet OR to hand-held reading devices"
The IDPF and AAP began collecting data together starting in Q1 2006

This report from E-Reads.