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Amazon Sells More Ebooks On Christmas Than Real Books

Posted by Soulskill on from the takes-way-more-to-stuff-a-stocking-though dept.

ctmurray writes "Amazon reports for the first time ever they sold more ebooks on one day than real books. My wife is an ebook-only author and reported her largest single day sales on Christmas day, and December has been her best month ever as well. All those Kindles bought for this season are being seen in ebook sales." The battle with publishers over pricing seems to be coming to the fore as well.

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  1. Re:Greedy publishers by stoolpigeon · · Score: 4, Informative

    They are in the publishing business - it's called booksurge and is apparently in the process of being rebranded CreateSpace.

    This is print on demand, self publishing stuff but reading the above articles make it pretty clear to me that this is where stuff is headed. The big publishing houses don't make a lot of sense any more. Pretty much like music.

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