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Amazon Announces eBooks sales officially passing paperback sales

Submitted by steveemecz on Fri, 05/20/2011 - 15:51

According to CIO today, Amazon have announced that since April, paid ebook sales have passed paperback sales. 105 ebooks for every 100 paperbacks sold.

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said the e-book threshold arrived sooner than expected. "Customers are now choosing Kindle books more often than print books," he said. "We had high hopes that this would happen eventually, but we never imagined it would happen this quickly." Amazon has sold print books for 15 years and Kindle books for less than four.

In a previous article I mentioned that our MX Publishing eBook sales had reached around 26% of our sales as an independent, with around 4 out of 5 of those sales being on Kindle.

The article goes on to share some interesting insights from a Boston Library on the impact of eReaders.

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If I were to choose, I would

Submitted by GerryG on Sat, 08/06/2011 - 20:31.

If I were to choose, I would still prefer to buy paperback books rather that its e-book counterpart.
Gerry of business names consultancy firm

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