Books Outnumber Games in the App Store
| Posted By : megan In : Analytics, Developer Community
For the first time in the Apple App Store history, books outnumber games, making books the biggest category in the store. The App Store has been ever-evolving since it’s conception. As both developers and iPhone owners discover new uses for apps for work, fun, and daily life we expect to see even more changes in the future.
Take a look at our current App Store data:
Mobclix App Store Data
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Author : Bryce
Amazon's Kindle is their top seller, so it must be a hot idea. Makes sense to me, that Apple would like to capture some of that market share. I do think that the number of down loads would be a better indicator of what is actually more popular.
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Author : Andy Greene
The real question is how many books vs. games are being downloaded, not how many book vs. games are posted. That will be revealing trend data, and I agree this current data is interesting, but we cannot conclude anything from it.
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well there is nothing strange, most of us use iPhone/iPad to read ebooks
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Author : megan
@thehumble1 We agree that one reason that books has outnumbered games is because developers have come up with easy ways to publish books. And yes iPhone certainly still has fewer books than Kindle, but we do think it's interesting that the books category has grown so much and so quickly
Author : cleondann
Thanks for the information. I love to read ebooks relevant to iphone applications and developing techniques.
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Author : thehumble1
First off, these stats are just stupid. The number of Apps doesn't really show what's trending. 8/10 top apps in the free category are games and 7/10 in the paid category are games. I don't see any books in either, nor reader apps. The real point is that with a few exceptions, none of these books are written for the iPhone. They are published books with an iPhone version. It's not that there is a huge demand for these books, just a really easy method of porting an already existing book to a new platform. For instance. the Kindle has 400,000 books available or approximately 15 times the number of Games that the App store has, so obviously the Kindle has a huge advantage over the App store. With Amazon having several million titles overall, it seems that the iPhone only carries a tiny percent of the books available, while it carries almost all of the apps available since it created and still drives the entire market. I don't see the value of this graph until it shows actual downloads AND time spent on the app.
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Author : Keith Beucler
I've been seeing this trend for a while and I'm pretty excited about it. The upcoming release of the iPad will just continue this trend. My main concern is the impact that the iBookstore will have on app based books. There's been very little information on how open the bookstore will be to indie publishers. SInce iTunes is fairly closed to indie artists, I suspect books as apps will continue to be the model used by indie writers and publishers.