Laura Lippman's e-books outsell her hardcovers, just barely

[Richard Sanders]

New Thriller Sells More E-Books Than Hardcovers

Weeks after Amazon.com said that it is now selling more electronic books than hardcovers, a leading book publisher said one of its prominent new titles is generating greater e-book unit sales than hardcover unit sales during its first week on sale

Laura Lippman’s thriller, “I’d Know You Anywhere,” went on sale Aug. 17, and in its first five days sold 4,739 e-books and 4,000 physical hardcovers, said News Corp.’s HarperCollins Publishers...

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/08/26/new-thriller-sells-more-e-bo...

[Karen Dionne]

Which certainly explains why agents are fighting so hard to make sure their authors get a fair royalty rate on their ebooks. Interesting!

[I. J. Parker]

The fair rate on e-books, of course, applies to new contracts, right??? Most of us have signed away our e-rights already.

I'm still waiting to see how this will all work out. My guess is that my Kindle books outsell the print version, but you cannot be sure, because Amazon uses separate rankings.