For the first time ever, more eBooks were sold on Christmas
Day than physical books.
Because far more ebooks are sold
every day than physical books.
Not exact matches
Amazon now sells more Kindle ebooks
than physical books every single
day.
The biggest news to come from that press release was the fact Amazon's Kindle and Kindle
books were the biggest sellers, wherein Kindle
books sold more on Christmas
day than their
physical counterparts - which...
Customers purchased more Kindle
books than physical books for the first time on Christmas
Day, Amazon said.
Certainly,
physical books still have to be shipped to various retailers, but even that is a much faster and more cost effective process
than it was in the early
days of large - scale publishing.
The release immediately continues, «On Christmas
Day, for the first time ever, customers purchased more Kindle
books than physical books.»
The biggest news to come from that press release was the fact Amazon's Kindle and Kindle
books were the biggest sellers, wherein Kindle
books sold more on Christmas
day than their
physical counterparts - which honestly makes a whole lot more sense then people are giving credit for.
On July 14, Digital
Book Day will operate on much the same premise as World
Book Night, only digital copies will be given away to readers rather
than physical copies.
If he did (and had a better memory
than I), he would recall my entry from last January 5th where I discussed Amazon's silly press statement: «On Christmas
Day, for the first time ever, customers purchased more Kindle
books than physical books.»
On Saturday, for example, Amazon announced that on Christmas
Day its customers bought more Kindle
books than physical books for the first time ever.
All those happy recipients of a holiday Kindle fired up their shiny new device and began purchasing e-
books, making Christmas
day the first
day customers purchased more e-
books than physical books.
A self - described «emotional science project,» Bernadette Mayer's Memory — 1,100 - odd photographs made by shooting a thirty - six - exposure roll of 35 - mm color slide film on each of the thirty - one
days of July 1971, accompanied by six - plus hours of diaristic narration that the artist later revised into a
book — is one of those conceptual pieces from the 1960s and»70s that have been better known as anecdote
than as
physical fact.
Amazon reports that on Christmas
day, for the first time in its history, it sold more digital
books than physical books.