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Old 07-23-2010, 11:24 AM   #1
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No Roads Lead to Rome
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Post Kindle editions outsell hardcovers

This week Amazon announced that sales of digital books have outpaced traditional book sales by a significant margin.

I'm certainly seeing this with my own novel, "No Roads Lead to Rome," where digital sales this month are roughly 10X paper copies, and I'm curious if forum members are also moving towards e-Books.

Reading between the lines, digital editions are outselling hardcovers, paperbacks still rule ... for now

I wonder if the e-book figures are being inflated by all the free books available. I've certainly downloaded more than a few public domain editions (Mark Twain, for example) than I'll ever read -- hey, they're free!

I'm also curious what the average price/e-book is. For example, I recently bought the Edward Gibbon's six volumes of "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" for $0.99. Not quite an "impulse buy," but getting this masterpiece for the price of a song wasn't hard to resist.

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