Back in July, Amazon stated that Kindle book sales had
surpassed hardcover sales by 43 %.
Given the growing affordability of e-readers as well as current book - buying trends — e-book sales
surpassed hardcover sales in the U.S. for the first time in June, according to the Association of American Publishers — a bookless library makes a good deal of sense in the year 2013.
Not exact matches
2 min readAccording to a recent MediaBistro article, «net
sales revenue from eBooks have
surpassed hardcover books in the first quarter of 2012.»
Amazon, the world's largest online retailer, reported in 2011 that
sales of its digital books had
surpassed hardcovers and paperbacks.
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.»
By July 2010, Kindle book
sales had
surpassed hardcover book
sales, and six months later, Kindle books overtook paperback books to become the most popular format on Amazon.com.
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.»
Digital
sales are doing very well and they have finally
surpassed hardcover prints!
According to a recent MediaBistro article, «net
sales revenue from eBooks have
surpassed hardcover books in the first quarter of 2012.»
In July 2010, Amazon announced that
sales of electronic books for its Kindle e-book reader
surpassed sales of
hardcover books on the site.
By July 2010, digital book
sales had
surpassed hardcover book
sales, and six months later, digital books overtook paperback books to become the etailers most popular format.
Quoting the report how the
sales of eBooks have
surpassed hardcovers since June, eBook revenue is forecast to reach approximately six times higher in 2016 — up to $ 11 billion.
[51] At the end of the first quarter of 2012, e-book
sales in the United States
surpassed hardcover book
sales for the first time.
Even more impressive, e-book
sales not only
surpassed, but thoroughly trounced both adult mass - market paperback
sales ($ 39.0 M) and
hardcover sales ($ 49.1 M) for the first time ever.
Despite Amazon's July - 2010 announcement that
sales of e-books had
surpassed those of
hardcover books, physical books have a healthy future: 73 % of e-reader owners say there is still a place for physical books.
The beginning of the this latest round of teeth gnashing and chest beating began with the news that e-book
sales for the first quarter of this year
surpassed the
sales of
hardcovers.