German Buch News: Heubach's 100,000 iPhone Downloads

By Siobhan O’Leary

Hamburg-based IT service provider Heubach Media announced that in just six months, 100,000 e-books were downloaded via its mobile apps. Heubach project manager Steffen Kohlhagen told BuchMarkt, “Six-figure downloads demonstrate the high acceptance of e-books on the iPhone.”

Online book and media portal Buch.de announced positive results for the first half of the year, said Boersenblatt. Sales for the group increased by 8.8% over the same period last year to 33.1 million euros.

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Siobhan O'Leary

Siobhan O’Leary is a literary agent, translator and writer based in Berlin. She previously worked in the Foreign Rights department of the Crown Publishing Group (Random House) and at the publishing consulting firm Market Partners International.