13/02/06

Reading

BBC’s numbers for the growth in online retailing (they’re big): UK consumers bought �8.2bn ($14.3bn) of goods from websites last year – up 28.9% on 2004, according to market analysts Verdict

The Times on the man who would be Alan Giles on HMV, and his vision for the future (clue: it’s online).

And while we’re at it, some old numbers from LBF 2005, grace Google Print, on the breakdown of book sales:

SOURCE OF BOOK SALES 2004
Large chains – 39.7%
Other bookshops – 15.9%
Bookclub/mail order – 15.9%
Other retail – 12.4%
Supermarkets – 9%
Internet – 7%
Source: TNS

The Telegraph on Permira’s vision for HMV (stay with me)

The IHT on Amazon’s slippery numbers game

The Bookseller on 2005 sales, broken down in any which way, the same for paperbacks and the christmas hits.

Posted by Peter Collingridge in Future of the book, Publishing, Reading.