ebooks rule

[papayahed]

For the last three months of 2010 anyways.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12305015



Amazon has announced that in the US it sold more e-books for its Kindle device than it sold paperback books in the last three months of 2010.

[Lokasenna]

I suspect it'll be a passing fad. I remember one year when yo-yos suddenly became all the rage, and they sold hundreds of thousands of the things. 18 months later, most of them had been abandoned.

Human beings are fickle, fickle things...

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

I went on a two year ebook-only binge. I am back on actual books only. It will pass.

[MystyrMystyry]

I went on a two year ebook-only binge. I am back on actual books only. It will pass.

Which? Actual books only, or e-books?


E-books are a great idea for self-publishing I've decided, and perhaps for out of print and hard to get books, and for school students, and for people on the move, and for holidays, and for reading the newspaper in a tidier form, and for...

[papayahed]

I suspect it'll be a passing fad.

yep. Just like walking upright and sliced bread.:biggrinjester:

[Paulclem]

I wish I had an e-reader...:cryin: