Sales: Big Indie Store Sales Inch Up This Year
Although Amazon says it is now selling three times as many Kindle e-books in the first half of the year compared to the first half of 2009, this does not necessarily mean that the market for traditional books has eroded. Here's one measure, courtesy of Above the Treeline: sales at 51 large independent bookstores (with annual sales of more than $2 million) in the first six months of the year have risen 1%, "not spectacular in and of itself, but probably pretty in line with general retail and probably something that would come as a surprise to people given the e-reader 'explosion,' " as Above the Treeline's John Rubin commented.
