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Amazon just announced they sell more eBooks than print books.
http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/19/th...-sales-surpass-print-it-only-took-four-years/
This will come as a bit of a shock to all those publishing professionals who insisted two months ago that authors won't make money with eBooks because eBooks were only 8.7% of the book market.
ETA: Amazon is selling 105 eBooks for every 100 print books in the U.S. and Amazon UK is now selling more Kindle eBooks than hardcovers.
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/amazo...se-print-versions-114-kindle-top-seller/49026
This news won't surprise John Blake, managing director of John Blake Books in the U.K., who reported:
"I was fascinated to discover that serious readers—people who buy more than 12 books a year—are fast becoming the keenest e-book customers. These, surely, are the very people who would wish to purchase hardbacks rather than waiting months for an e-book edition."
http://www.thebookseller.com/blogs/joy-real-books.html
Yeah, avid U.K. readers would really rather spend more money on hardcovers than eBooks, but their actual purchases are saying otherwise.
http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/19/th...-sales-surpass-print-it-only-took-four-years/
This will come as a bit of a shock to all those publishing professionals who insisted two months ago that authors won't make money with eBooks because eBooks were only 8.7% of the book market.
ETA: Amazon is selling 105 eBooks for every 100 print books in the U.S. and Amazon UK is now selling more Kindle eBooks than hardcovers.
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/amazo...se-print-versions-114-kindle-top-seller/49026
This news won't surprise John Blake, managing director of John Blake Books in the U.K., who reported:
"I was fascinated to discover that serious readers—people who buy more than 12 books a year—are fast becoming the keenest e-book customers. These, surely, are the very people who would wish to purchase hardbacks rather than waiting months for an e-book edition."
http://www.thebookseller.com/blogs/joy-real-books.html
Yeah, avid U.K. readers would really rather spend more money on hardcovers than eBooks, but their actual purchases are saying otherwise.
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