Friday, May 20, 2011

Kindle E-Book Outsells Print Versions For First Time Ever

Bestseller: The e-book is outselling text versions for the first time ever

Is It The End For The Paperback? Kindle E-Book Outsells Print Versions For First Time Ever -- the Daily Mail

Sales of digital e-books have outstripped real books for the first time, according to Amazon.

Four years after the launch of electronic novels, the firm announced it has sold 105 e-books for every 100 printed books over the past six weeks.

While e-book sales have previously outsold hardback books, never before have they exceeded sales of all books, in both hardback and paperback forms.

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My Comment: We predicted this years ago .... but it is still a surprise to now know that this point has been reached.

2 comments:

Culinary School: Three Semesters of Life, Learning, and Loss of Blood said...

Yeah! Good news for "Culinary School: Three Semesters of Life, Learning, and Loss of Blood" at http://amzn.to/eOKJWw and on Amazon Kindle.

TheSanPintoTimes said...

Interesting article. Print is not dead. I think ebooks are on the rise but print will be around for a while.