By January 2011, ebook sales at Amazon had even
surpassed paperback sales.
«I predict we will
surpass paperback sales sometime in the next nine to 12 months,» the Amazon founder said in an interview with USA Today.
Not exact matches
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.»
Six months later,
sales of Kindle books
surpassed that of
paperbacks.
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.
Amazon's CEO is predicting that ebooks won't start outselling all printed books for a while — saying ebooks won't even
surpass the
sales of
paperback books until the summer of 2011.
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.
[3] In July 2010, e-book
sales on Amazon.com
surpassed hard cover book
sales and in January 2011 they
surpassed paperback book
sales.