He further added, «In addition, even while
our hardcover sales continue to grow, the Kindle format has now overtaken the hardcover format.
«Even while
our hardcover sales continue to grow, the Kindle format has now overtaken the hardcover format,» said Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon.com.
Less than one year after introducing the UK Kindle Store, Amazon.co.uk is now selling more Kindle books than hardcover books, even as
hardcover sales continue to grow.
«In addition, even while
our hardcover sales continue to grow, the Kindle format has now overtaken the hardcover format,» he said.
«In addition, even while
our hardcover sales continue to grow, the Kindle format has now overtaken the hardcover format.
Not exact matches
As for
hardcover sales, Amazon said it sees
continued growth in that segment.
Incidentally,
hardcovers make great shelfies, and we think you should watch for a
continued rise in
hardcover book
sales alongside paperbacks and ebooks.
The book debuted at # 10 on the New York Times
Hardcover Non-fiction Best Sellers list during its first week on
sale, remained on the main list for 3 weeks, and
continued on the extended list for 4 more weeks.
Last July we announced that Kindle books had passed
hardcovers and predicted that Kindle would surpass paperbacks in the second quarter of this year, so this milestone has come even sooner than we expected - and it's on top of
continued growth in paperback
sales.»
Without real - time
sales rank tracking through NovelRank, authors are left guessing if there was a positive effect from the book's coverage, not knowing where to spend their time and resources in the
continued promotion of their paperback,
hardcover, or audio book.
Last July we announced that Kindle books had passed
hardcovers and predicted that Kindle would surpass paperbacks in the second quarter of this year, so this milestone has come even sooner than we expected — and it's on top of
continued growth in paperback
sales.»
If they kill their own ebook
sales, it's not going to make the ebook adopters go out and buy a ton more
hardcovers — they'll just look for other, cheaper ebooks, and the trend will
continue.
Throughout all of last year Amazon sold 115 Kindle ebooks for every 100 paperbacks sold, and three times as many Kindle books as
hardcovers — considering paperback
sales continued to grow and free Kindle ebooks were omitted that's even more impressive.
Kindle book
sales continue to outpace
hardcover sales, as well; during the same time period, three times as many Kindle books were sold as were
hardcover books (including
sales listings for books that have no Kindle edition).
Continue reading New (but not surprising) AAP findings this week: paperback,
hardcover, and audio
sales grow; ebook
sales decline →
AAP has released some new numbers this week that point to the trend we saw in previous findings: that print (paperback and
hardcover) and audio
sales continue to grow while ebook
sales continue to decline.