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Ebooks beginning to reach UK readers (Guardian article)
Ebooks beginning to reach UK readers

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Four months after Waterstone's entered the digital era, putting the Sony Reader on the shelves, the first set of sales figures for the electronic book show a market which is finally on the move.

The chain has sold almost 30,000 of the £224 readers since the launch in September, and has seen downloads of electronic books from the Waterstone's site pass the 75,000 mark.

"We are very pleased with sales so far," said Waterstone's commercial director, Neil Jewsbury, calling the figures "excellent" and suggesting that "UK readers and bookbuyers are ready for digital books".

With a sevenfold increase of ebook downloads on Christmas Day, it's clear that many of the Readers were bought as Christmas presents, but Waterstone's are confident that this is a new phase in digital publishing.
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