Amazon: E-books Will Overtake Paperbacks by the End of 2011
It's funny how this just kind of sneaks up on you, because for years I've been reading about how ebook sales are anemic and not making much of a dent in the publishers' bottom lines. Pocket Books discontinued their ebook only Star Trek: S.C.E. series due to poor sales. Suddenly, seemingly out of nowhere, Amazon reports that they sell 180 ebooks for every 100 hardcovers. Does this come as a surprise to anybody else?
Some of my friends have extolled the virtues of ebooks, and I do get them sometimes, mainly for reading on the go. But when I'm sitting at home, lying in bed (or in the
Have you? Do you prefer hard copies of books or have you gone exclusively ebook? Or are you like me, a bit of a mix?
And if you haven't gone to ebooks, why not? And if you have, why?
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