Online retail giant Amazon said Monday that sales of electronic books for the Kindle have overtaken hardcover book sales. (phys.org)
Amazon thinks it could quickly dominate Brazil's e-book market with the Kindle, boosting sales of electronic books to 15 per cent of the publishing market in the first year of operations from 0.5 per cent currently, the industry source said. (theglobeandmail.com)
Very, very few indie publishers bother with paper editions, even though sales of electronic books are around the 25 % of all trade sales number, with the remaining amounts being paper. (deanwesleysmith.com)