Another milestone in IT.
In a recent news, Amazon said sale of digital books have outstripped US sales of hardbacks on its website for the first time. Amazon claims to have sold 143 digital books for its e-reader, the Kindle, for every 100 hardback books over the past three months. The pace of change is also accelerating. Amazon said that in the most recent four weeks, the rate reached 180 ebooks for every 100 hardbacks sold. Five authors including Steig Larsson, the writer of Girl with a Dragon Tattoo, and Stephenie Meyer, who penned the Twilight series, each selling more than 500,000 digital books.
It seems to me that the growth of ebooks is gradually damaging sales of physical books.....
I like this idea....we can don't have to bring the heavy & thick book with us anymore....we can even read from our handphone!
ReplyDeletefor the time being, maybe it's difficult to accept the innovation of the technology; from physical book to the digital book. but, i think, it won't damaging sales of physical books, but perhaps in the future it will help our environment which is no damage to our forest to produce paper as a main materials to make a physical book...
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