Amazon's ebook milestone: digital sales outstrip hardbacks for first time in US
Amazon US says it has sold 143 digital books for every 100 hardbacks in the last three months
It is an announcement that will provoke horror among those who can think of nothing better than spending an afternoon rummaging around a musty old bookshop. In what could be a watershed for the publishing industry, Amazon said sales of digital books have outstripped US sales of hardbacks on its website for the first time.
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Tuesday, 20 July, 2010
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