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I think you may be mistaken Amazon.com is now selling more Kindle books than paperback books. Since the beginning of the year, for every 100 paperback books Am
by jeremydavid 16y ago
I think you may be mistaken
Amazon.com is now selling more Kindle books than paperback books. Since the beginning of the year, for every 100 paperback books Amazon has sold, the Company has sold 115 Kindle books. Additionally, during this same time period the Company has sold three times as many Kindle books as hardcover books. This is across Amazon.com’s entire U.S. book business and includes sales of books where there is no Kindle edition. Free Kindle books are excluded and if included would make the numbers even higher.
- erikpukinskis 16y ago100 paperbacks ~= 115 kindle books ~= 40 hardcover books (33% of 115) 140 paper books ~= 115 kindle books => ~82% as many kindle books as paper books
- jeremydavid 16y agoOops. Thank's for the explanation :) Perhaps Amazon's words are intentionally ambiguous. EDIT: Actually, I just read TechCrunch's article Has the pixel to print tipping point been reached? Last July we reported that Amazon’s Kindle eReader books had surpassed hardcover books in terms of sales, selling 143 Kindle books for every 100 hardcover books. Now that lead also holds for paperbacks and by default all books, with 115 Kindle books being sold for every hundred paperbacks. http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/27/kindle-books-overtake-paperback-books-to-become-amazons-most-popular-format/ http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/27/kindle-books-overtake-paper...