Hmmm, I've seen posts on MR about the growth of ebooks. I just did a Google search using "ebook sales growth" and found one article from
Publishers Weekly dated December 10th that says:
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Facing some harder comparisons, e-book sales posted their slowest growth rates in 2010 in October. Still, sales jumped 112.4%, to $40.7 million, from the 14 publishers who reported results to the AAP’s monthly sales program. For the first 10 months of the year, e-book sales from the 14 houses rose 171.3%, to $345.3%, 8.7% of the trade sales of reporting publishers. The three adult categories all had declines in October and for the 10 months of 2010 adult hardcover sales from 17 reporting houses fell 7.7%, and sales from 9 mass market houses were down 14.3%. Sales of trade paperbacks from 19 publishers were flat.
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To twowheels, I weighed my hard cover version of "Under the Dome" and it was a hefty 3 pounds. I was very happy to carry it around for reading on my Kindle.
