Thread: Ebooks now 8.5% of sales, expected to climb to 40% in 3-5 years
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Old 08-12-2010, 06:17 AM   #3
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Originally Posted by Graham View Post
I've bought more books that I didn't know existed from browsing online while buying an ebook than I ever did on impulse purchases in bookshops, over the same period. And I love bookshops.

Graham
I agree - I've found far more by browsing Amazon - especially "people who bought this also bought ..." and so forth, than I ever found by browsing in bookshops. For much of what I want, bookshops have very little stock, so browsing doesn't do much for me.

I my view, ebooks are likely to increase reading. They just threaten the people who currently make money out of pbooks.
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