According to Jeff Bezos, it's not just hardbacks that the Kindle ebooks will outsell.
In an
interview with USA Today, this is what Bezos had to say (emphasis is mine):
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Q: Amazon is selling more Kindle e-books than hardcover books. When will you pass paperbacks?
A: I predict we will surpass paperback sales sometime in the next nine to 12 months. Sometime after that, we'll surpass the combination of paperback and hardcover. It stuns me. People forget that Kindle is only 33 months old.
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That's a pretty bold prediction, I must say. Personally, I'd be surprised if it comes true; but then again, I'm not the founder and CEO of one of the world's largest book sellers.
Oh, and since everyone always brings up ePubs when discussing Kindle, here's what Bezos said about that:
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Q: Why doesn't Amazon support the popular "e-pub" standard used by your competitors and many libraries?
A: We are innovating so rapidly that having our own standard allows us to incorporate new things at a very rapid rate. For example: Whispersync (which uses wireless connections to sync your place in a book across devices) and changing font sizes.
Other standards over time may incorporate some of these things. But we're moving very quickly to improve the state of the art. It's very helpful not to have to wait for some third-party standard to catch up.
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Thoughts?