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Ebooks Outsell Books on Christmas Day
Interesting.
Last month, Amazon’s Kindle broke sales records as it was once again a hot item to give this holiday season. When countless people turned on their new Christmas Kindles for the first time yesterday, what do you think was the first thing that they did? That’s right: They bought ebooks to fill up their Kindle hard drives. A lot of them.
In fact, those new Kindle owners broke a record. According to Amazon, yesterday marked the first time that more ebooks were sold than real books.
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The Names by Don DeLillo (1982)
The Box Man by Kobo Abe (1973, English 1974)
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Do you think this includes free e-books? If you look at the Amazon best-sellers list, a good chunk of the top 50 is now filled with free e-books (both new and old public domain works). That could easily drive up the e-book numbers quite a bit.