(publishersweekly.com): Hoping to get a sense of how frontlist bestsellers are really performing in digital compared to print—and get a snapshot of the e-book market in the process—Publishers Weekly (PW) ran down the performance of a handful of current hit titles. To do so, it asked Amazon for a list of its bestselling Kindle editions over the past 30 days. PW then asked publishers for a ratio of print to e-book sales for their frontlist titles that are on that list. The numbers, which are for lifetime sales, show that, measured across all outlets, hardcovers are still driving units, though e-books represent an important, and widely varying, slice of total sales.
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