Friday, May 20, 2011

Amazon sales of digital books for Kindle...

...overtake print titles for first
time

From "The Telegraph"

"Customers are now choosing Kindle books more often than print books,"
Amazon founder and chief executive Jeff Bezos said in a statement.

"We had high hopes that this would happen eventually, but we never
imagined it would happen this quickly," Mr. Bezos added. "We've been selling print books for 15 years and Kindle books for less than four years."

The Seattle, Washington-based Amazon said that since April 1, it was selling 105 Kindle e-books for every 100 print books, hardcover and paperback combined.

The figures referred to the company's US website, not Amazon.co.uk.

The company said it had sold more than three times as many Kindle books so far in 2011 as it did during the same period last year

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