This Christmas millions are being spent on persuading us to buy easy - to - read electronic devices like Kindle and iTab, and with more digital books said to have been sold in the US
this year than hardbacks we can all see that a publishing revolution is on us.
Not exact matches
Indeed, at press time, 14 of the
year's 25 bestselling cookbooks were
hardbacks priced at $ 20 or higher that sold more
than 30,000 copies each, according to Nielsen BookScan.
Regrettably, it's the movie version of John Berendt's Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, a book still thumping its chest on the
hardback best - seller list after more
than three
years.
In the UK last
year, more digital books were published
than hardback editions, according to an article by Phillip Jones for The Bookseller.
According to an Amazon UK release, the company is now selling more ebooks
than hardback or paperback books in Britain, a tipping point that we reached in the U.S. over a
year ago.
I've had several incarnations of kindles, the latest being a paper - white (which I absolutely love), and I have purchased more e-books in the past 5
years than all the
hardbacks and paperbacks combined in the 33
years prior.
We also know from this slide from HarperCollins that publishers are now making better margins on ebooks
than on their
hardbacks, a fact that agent Brian DeFlore says publishers have been lying to agents about for
years.