The press release is fascinating but almost impossible to believe: According to Amazon.com, e-books have become so popular that more books are now selling hardcover, with 180 e-books sold for 100 hardcover books to go out the door, at least in the last month. (Free Books are excluded from that figure.)
It's incredible, so much so that boggles the mind. I consider myself a man of the world, and I can assure you I do not see anywhere near as many people as I am reading reading Kindle hardcover books - though, of course, these figures only apply to buyers of Amazon and not those who might have bought the books from other stores.
Still, assuming Amazon is telling the truth and not manipulate the numbers somehow, this growth rate is phenomenal. In fact, according to the company sales, e-book are on a rampage out of hand. In the last three months, the proportion of e-book sales hardcover was 143 to 100, so the numbers are absolutely shot now. (Amazon says this is because the Kindle now costs only $ 189, which has opened as a truly dominant.)
Total sales of electronic books in the first half of 2010 are three times higher than the same period last year.
The company is also justifiably proud that continues to lead its competitors in sales of electronic books, and noted that of the 1.14 million e-books sold by James Patterson, 867 000 of them were sold for the Kindle platform.
Are we really experiencing a change in the way books are read, the first since the dawn of the paperback? Writing can be done on the wall (or Kindle) - although I realize that Amazon does not mention how e-book sales are compared in relation to the pocket books. However, as the New York Times, the day is probably inevitable when the e-books will overtake print in all its forms: An expert quoted says that within 10 years, less than 25 percent of all books will be sold in versions on paper (Christopher Null/Yahoo!).
It's incredible, so much so that boggles the mind. I consider myself a man of the world, and I can assure you I do not see anywhere near as many people as I am reading reading Kindle hardcover books - though, of course, these figures only apply to buyers of Amazon and not those who might have bought the books from other stores.
Still, assuming Amazon is telling the truth and not manipulate the numbers somehow, this growth rate is phenomenal. In fact, according to the company sales, e-book are on a rampage out of hand. In the last three months, the proportion of e-book sales hardcover was 143 to 100, so the numbers are absolutely shot now. (Amazon says this is because the Kindle now costs only $ 189, which has opened as a truly dominant.)
Total sales of electronic books in the first half of 2010 are three times higher than the same period last year.
The company is also justifiably proud that continues to lead its competitors in sales of electronic books, and noted that of the 1.14 million e-books sold by James Patterson, 867 000 of them were sold for the Kindle platform.
Are we really experiencing a change in the way books are read, the first since the dawn of the paperback? Writing can be done on the wall (or Kindle) - although I realize that Amazon does not mention how e-book sales are compared in relation to the pocket books. However, as the New York Times, the day is probably inevitable when the e-books will overtake print in all its forms: An expert quoted says that within 10 years, less than 25 percent of all books will be sold in versions on paper (Christopher Null/Yahoo!).
