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Kindle books outselling hardcovers on Amazon
-- Over the past three months, for every 100 hardcover books Amazon.com has sold, it has sold 143 Kindle books. Over the past month, for every 100 hardcover books Amazon.com has sold, it has sold 180 Kindle books. This is across Amazon.com's entire U.S. book business and includes sales of hardcover books where there is no Kindle edition. Free Kindle books are excluded and if included would make the number even higher.
This is a very interesting piece on the shift in popularity to the ebooks. Has the era of the hardback now passed, do you think?
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With the Kindle price drop, it was only a matter of time until this happened. The cheaper the ebook readers become, the more people will buy them and the ebooks that go with them. Any hardback or paperback publisher should be thinking seriously about doing both ebook and hard copy versions.
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