Amazon's e-book sales already
exceed hardcover sales and are on track to eclipse paperbacks this year.
Yet for the first time, ebook sales have
exceeded hardcover sales; first quarter (2012) ebook sales were $ 282 million compared to $ 230 million for hardcover books.
Not exact matches
In July, online bookseller Amazon.com announced that quarterly
sales of e-books for the company's popular Kindle e-reader had
exceeded those of
hardcovers for the first time.
The figures, which were posted on GalleyCat on Friday, show that net
sales revenue from ebooks
exceeded that of
hardcover books in the first quarter of the year: a first.