The UK’s biggest book retailer Amazon now sells more ebooks than hardbacks and paperbacks combined, the company has said.
For every 100 print books sold through the site, Amazon said it sold 114 titles for its Kindle e-reader device.
It added that the average Kindle owner bought up to four times more books than they did before owning the device.
While I have a Barnes & Noble Nook, I expect my experience is much the same as the Kindle in that they make it so easy to purchase ebooks. Plus, I have the Nook app on my smartphone, so I can truly read anywhere even if I don’t have my regular Nook handy. That said, and even though I have embraced ebooks, I am still ambivalent about them. They are good for reading a book in the usual linear fashion, but if you like to re-read a book, just hitting the high points and glossing over other parts, it is much less-user friendly.