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Originally Posted by pdurrant
It might well be true, if you include 'sales' of free ebooks.
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I take it back. It is only for US sales, but they aren't including free ebooks, and they're not just including books available in Kindle editions.
The actual press release says:
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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.
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From the figures they give, their unit volumes are:
15% hardbacks
40% paperbacks
45% kindle ebooks
Of course, by value I'd expect that bot hardbacks and paperbacks are more than kindle ebooks. But it certainly seems that by volume Kindle ebooks will soon sell more at Amazon US than hardbacks and paperbacks combined.
It's anyone's guess when ebooks will outstrip either hardbacks or paperbacks by value. No doubt Amazon will tell us when that happens.