eBooks Nearly Outsell Print Books At Amazon

Posted by Soulskill on Friday January 28, 2011 @11:35AM from the if-only-we-could-operate-books-using-oil dept.

destinyland writes "Thursday Amazon.com announced that they're selling more ebooks than paperback books — and three times as many ebooks as hardcovers. If you combine their statistics into a pie chart, it shows that 45% of all the books Amazon sells are now ebooks. And Amazon's statistic doesn't include all the free ebooks people are downloading to their Kindles, so if just one user downloads a free ebook for every nine paid ebook purchases — then Amazon is already delivering more digital ebooks than they are print editions." Another reader tips an interview with Brian Altounian, CEO of ebook marketplace WOWIO, in which he discusses an encroaching feature that ebook aficionados love to hate: ads.

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Re:I will accept ads by InlawBiker · 2011-01-28 13:43 · Score: 4, Funny

The answer is of course, product placement in-line with the text. They could do this pretty easily on the back end of many books automatically.
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