May 2009 Summary

During May 19,885 new books were added to the Kindle Store with 294,881 books at the end of the month. This corresponds to 7.23% growth.

Here is break down by categories:

While I didn’t track number of blogs initially, at the end of the month it was 5,368. Up almost 4k from estimated initial count of 1,4k +286%

Here is break down by categories:

Here’s brief recoup of the blog for the previous month:

May 6th – Kindle DX is announced and Amazon starts taking pre-orders…
May 15th – Wooden Kindle replica is constructed by folks at “Incredible Stuff I Made” and then burned…
May 18th – BlogKindle.com is published on Kindle store for $1.99/month, on May 26th the price is decreased to $0.99/month.
May 20th – Kindle for iPhone is updated with new features taking advantage of multi-touch and accelerometer.
May 21st – BlogKindle.com undergoes a major redesign.
May 22nd – Amazon sues Discovery Communications.
May 26th – Kindle Economics category is opened with the first post being about wireless data pricing for Amazon and Kindle subscribers.
May 27th – Amazon makes Kindle notes and highlights available for viewing online. However this feature needs much improvement before it becomes useful.
May 28th – Plastic Logic demoed their eReader on All Things D.
May 29th – Kindle DX release date contest was launched and BlogKindle starts tweeting.
May 31st – Pixel Qi demonstrates hybrid reflective/backlit display.

I hope you enjoyed reading this blog as much as I’ve enjoyed writing it :)

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