Kindle eBooks Literally Outselling Real Books on Amazon
When Amazon introduced with much funfare the ebooks about four years ago, the Kindle downloadable ebooks surprisingly has now outsold physical books sale performance on Amazon. Proving the best kindle offers is really riding on a high.
From previous records: As of April 1, for every 100 print books Amazon has sold — including paper books for which there are no Kindle books available — it has convincingly sold about 105 Kindle books. The giant company has sold more than three times as many Kindle ebooks in 2011 as it did in the same time period in 2010.
Great news of the coup comes less than a year after Amazon has announced that the sales of its digital book format had surpassed their hardcover sales, and less than four months after Kindle sales surpassed their paperback sales.
“We had high hopes that this would happen eventually, but we never imagined it would happen this quickly,” said Jeff Bezos, Amazon Founder and CEO, in a released statement.
This is very encouraging news as more and more people resort into carrying the handy Kindle e-reader rather than wasting luggage space with a dozen or so books to be taken on an overseas trip or simply to go to a sleep-over with some friends. Be sure to grab the best kindle offers from Amazon waiting for you.
If Google Trends are anything to go by, a fair number of you were fortunate enough to unwrap a Kindle 3 this Christmas (currently, “free kindle books” is trending at number 9).
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As such, we thought we’d alert you to some of the following resources for getting free Kindle books on your new device (as well as your smartphone and desktop). For all but the Kindle Store, you’ll need to transfer the books manually using a computer and USB cable.
- Project Gutenberg: 33,000 free e-books, including all of the classics, available in Kindle, HTML and simple text formats.
- Google E-Bookstore: The free section is filled with thousands of free, scanned copies of books, available in Kindle-friendly PDF formats.
- Internet Archive: Millions of primarily rare, out-of-print works in multiple languages and formats (including Kindle), especially useful for academic work.
- Open Library: 20 million user-contributed items in multiple editions and formats (including Kindle).
- ManyBooks.net: Nearly 30,000 titles, many of which have been pulled from Project Gutenberg. Has a good collection of little-known Creative Commons works.
- LibriVox: Thousands of free audiobooks.
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