About Time: Ebooks Outselling Printed Books

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.

I’ve been a believer in the future of ebooks for a long time, beginning back in the 1990s when I first bought a Rocket ebook reader for my book-hungry youngest daughter. I used an early t-mobile PDA, then a kindle, lately my iPhone and iPad.

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.

Comments

  • Brett Olson says:

    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.

  • Anna Thompson says:

    Think the success of the ipad fast-tracked the adoption of ebooks… at least for me 🙂

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