E-Book Boom Boosts Simon & Schuster [MediaMemo]

All of those Amazon Kindle sales -- and, presumably, sales of competitive ebook readers from Barnes & Noble and Apple -- have made an impact at publisher Simon & Schuster. The CBS unit says Q1 digital sales doubled over the previous year, and now represent 18 percent of the company's the publisher's revenue. Overall sales were up only 2 percent, to $155 million, but the higher margin on those digital sales means profits "more than doubled", to $7 million. Continue reading at 'AllThingsD'

[ AllThingsD | 2011-05-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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