Thread: Kindle books have now overtaken paperback books in Amazon
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Old 01-27-2011, 11:34 PM   #13
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I think this partly tells us about the demographic that Amazon sells to. I bet the numbers are nowhere close to this at, say, Barnes and Noble, because they have the bricks and mortar stores that most people are buying from.

Anyone know what percentage of the US book market Amazon holds over all? I'm betting it's not that high.

And yes, e-book readers are still a pretty rare sight "in the wild". There's been a big change over the last 18 months since I bought my first reader, though -- I'm no longer getting frequent insane curiosity from people when I bring it out.
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