Market share of book retailers in US

The rumored market share for books retail is

Amazon 8% of the market,

BN.com 2%,

Barnes & Noble and Dalton combo – some portion of 25%,

Borders/Walden -remaining portion of 25%,

Independents 5%,

Libraries 10%, etc.

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Nook is amazing: You can actually loan your books

One of the greatest feature in Nook seems to be a beta feature LendMe which allows users to lend the book for 14 days. The other limitation: You can lend a particular book to a particular user just once. (These seems like the restriction put by the publishers). Only 50% of the book on Nook seem to be lendable

Full review ZDNet

Borders jumps onto digital book bandwagon

Better Late than never: Border decided to jump into the e-book industry in an inorganic way. Border is investing and partnering with kobobooks.com to handle its e-book business. Kobo will integrate with Border soon sometime in Q1. Kobo seems to have access to 1.8 million free e-books through internet archive and other books primarily priced at $9.9.

Lets see Border with this partnership and after launching its own reader will be able to compete with likes of Amazon,Barnes n Noble, Sony etc.

Complete Story on NY Times

Scribd enters into e-book retailing market

Scribd all of a sudden seems to be getting some traction from publishers:

“Today, John Wiley and Sons, Barnes and Noble imprint Sterling Publishing, Chronicle Books, and the University of Chicago Press announced they will join a total of 150 publishers to offer ebooks in the Scribd Store.”

“Other publishers already on board include Simon & Schuster and O’Reilly Media. The ebooks are downloadable as a PDF, and excerpts can be shared through the Scribd reader.”

Full report on Techcrunch

Nook Released !!!

Barnes and Nobles Starts selling Nook. We will continue to track the sales of this e book reader in coming times:

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