"I don't think the benefit to Amazon has been that great, " said Michael Norris, a senior analyst for SimbaInformation, a research and consultancy company.
Cookbooks are currently something of a bright spot in book sales, which declined overall by about 5% in 2008, while the cookbook category declined by only between 1% and 2%, according to SimbaInformation, a media research company in Stamford, Conn.