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.
Your thoughts?