Measured in terms of number of titles, half of the over 46,000 (paid and free) books available through the iBooks app are from 6 categories. Fiction & Literature alone account for close to a third of all available iBooks titles:
Here is market share for a few (of the many) categories of books:
+ Mysteries and Thrillers
6.0%
+ Historical
3.0%
+ Literary
1.4%
+ Business and Personal Finance
1.2%
+ Politics & Current Events
1.2%
+ Children's Non-Fiction
0.8%
Many additional categories are listed.
There are over a hundred iBooks categories, the charts only contains the top 25.
The current set of titles is indicative of the publishers (and/or imprints) that Apple reached out to prior to the launch of the iPad, so expect the mix of iBooks titles to change over the next few months, as more publishers make their titles available through iBooks.
Research was done between April 15th and April 26th.
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