Amazon originally predicted that Kindle sales would
pass paperback sales in 2012, but my May 2011, they were already saying that paid Kindle books were outselling all paper books combined.
Not exact matches
I didn't mention a blog post I wrote there earlier in the month, titled EBook
Sales Pass Paperbacks, which is reprinted below.
Not only have ebook
sales passed hardback
sales at Amazon, now they've
passed paperbacks.
While traditional publishers (actually, the top end publishers) are fighting over business and legal issues, like any big business, you adapt and work with what works — eBooks still represent a minority in
sales, but it is rapidly catching up to print, and by all accounts, has already
passed hardcover (which has been in decline in a slow death since the advent of
paperbacks and trade
paperbacks in the 40s and 50s).
But as time
passes it has perturbed me more and more that so few of those
sales are for the
paperback versions of my books available through Amazon's Createspace.
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.»
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.»
Who knows how many hands a hardback or
paperback may
pass through with only the first -
sale copy generating revenue for the author?
E-books, which have roughly doubled or tripled in
sales each of the past several years, not only blew past mass - market
paperback sales, not only
passed adult hardcover
sales, but have now overtaken adult trade
paperback sales to become the largest single category of book
sales in February.
Mass - market
paperback sales continue their decline (now down below 1 / 3rd that of e-books — it wasn't that long ago that e-books
passing MM
paperbacks seemed like a big deal).