I knew that Amazon was now selling more Kindle books than paper books, but I was interested to see that ebook sales overtook hardcover sales this year.
E-book sales, January 2011: $69.9 million
E-book sales, January 2010: $32.4 million
Hardcover sales, January 2011: $49.1 million
Hardcover sales, January 2010: $55.4 million
Percentage of Americans who read e-books: 7 percent
E-reader shipments worldwide, fourth quarter 2010: 5.1 million units
E-readers in use by end of 2011, estimated: 10.3 million
Number of titles available for Amazon’s Kindle e-reader today: 850,000
Number of titles available for Amazon’s Kindle e-reader one year ago: 630,000
(From the San Jose Mercury News)