Amazon Kindle’s e-Book Sales Have Overtaken Physical Hardback Sales
Written by John Thompson on July 20, 2010 · Filed under Tech
Amazon may not be offering specific numbers regarding Kindle hardware or e-book sales, but we do know that ‘millions of people’ are reading books using a Kindle. Amazon have released a statement saying that sales of the Kindle have continued to improve month on month, and sales have been particularly accelerated since the Amazon Kindle 2 price was dropped from $259 to $189.
What’s even more interesting here is that over the past three months, “for every 100 hardcover books Amazon.com has sold, it has sold 143 Kindle books”. This becomes particularly impressive when just looking at the past month, in which time, “for every 100 hardcover books Amazon.com has sold, it has sold 180 Kindle books”.
Highlighting growth even further is the fact that Amazon sold more than 3x as many Kindle books in the first half of 2010 as in the first half of 2009. Sales figures such as these are incredibly promising for not only Amazon, but the e-book reader market as a whole.
It’s certainly an indication of the growth that the market is seeing, which will only accelerate as more competition is seen and prices are driven even lower.
If you haven’t been tempted by the e-book market as of yet, maybe this is the time to consider ditching physical books for their electronic counterparts and buy an Amazon Kindle 2 or Kindle DX. Do you already own a Kindle or another e-book reader? Let us know what you think in the comments!
Via – Amazon
Digital distribution leads people to become reckless with money. Being able to just buy something and seconds later have something is one of the reasons why people buy so many terrible apps from the iPhone App Store
Although a lot of people is buying the Kindle. Not everyone will. You have people who have bad eyes and this will make them strain there eyes even more. Plus a lot of people will just want to have the feel of getting comfy with a book in their hands.
This is very good news for e-books, but perhaps not so good for hardcovers :)
Personally I like both. I read a fair amount of e-books – it is often extremely convenient while travelling and I tend to fall asleep when listening to audio books, but for collection purposes I buy most of my books in hardcover – they look great on the shelf and there is just something about reading a physical book that a Kindle (or other e-reader) cannot compete with.