Amazon today announced that it is now selling more Kindle books than hardcover and paperback print books combined.
“Customers are now choosing Kindle books more often than print books. We had high hopes that this would happen eventually, but we never imagined it would happen this quickly – we’ve been selling print books for 15 years and Kindle books for less than four years,” said Jeff Bezos, Founder and CEO, Amazon.com.
Since April 1st, Amazon has been selling 105 Kindle books for every 100 print books sold. The figure would be even higher if free Kindle books were included. It has already sold three times as many Kindle books so far this year as it did during the same period in 2010.
It was just under a year ago that Kindle books started outselling hardcover books. Then in July 2010, Stieg Larsson was the first author to sell more than one million Kindle books.
Amazon also today announced that its recently introduced Kindle with Special Offers is now its bestselling Kindle device in the US.