Last week Jeff Bezos announced that E-books now outsell print books at amazon.com. Computerworld reported:
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said the e-book threshold arrived sooner than expected. “Customers are now choosing Kindle books more often than print books,” he said. “We had high hopes that this would happen eventually, but we never imagined it would happen this quickly.” Amazon has sold printed books for 15 years and Kindle books for less than four.
For those of us with the means to have easy access to technology, the ebook just makes so much sense, on so many levels, that since I first got one I’ve thought this was inevitable.
Funny, Jeff Bezos saying they didn’t think it would happen this quickly. When I first saw that first ebook reader I guessed wrong; I thought it would happen way more quickly than it actually has. On the other hand, by the time the Kindle came out, I was starting to think it would never happen.
I’m glad it did.
Think the success of the ipad fast-tracked the adoption of ebooks… at least for me 🙂
This is great, its so much more efficient to offer readers an ebook and cover the costs of publishing than to print a Million copies of a book and hope it will sell.