Random House eBook Sales Increase 300% In First Half Of 2010

Random House U.S. eBook sales increased 300% in the first half of the year, and comparably in Germany and UK.

According to a press release from media conglomerate Bertelsmann, which owns Random House, revenues for the publisher grew from €733 million (about $1 billion), for the first six months of 2009 to €790 million (about $1.08 billion) for the same period this year.

In the first half of the year, Random House had 138 New York Times bestsellers, including the Stieg Larsson Millennium trilogy, which sold 6.5

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