Digital Revolution? Kindle Ebooks Outsell Real Books on Christmas

http://mashable.com/2009/12/26/kindle-ebook-sales/ Last month, Amazon's Kindle broke sales records as it was once again a hot item to give this holiday season. When countless people turned on their new Christmas Kindles for the first time yesterday, what do you think was the first thing that they did? That's right: they bought ebooks to fill up their Kindle hard drives. A lot of them. In fact, those new Kindle owners broke a record. According to Amazon, yesterday marked the first time that more ebooks were sold than real books. The Digital Book Revolution? Hold Your Horses Did digital books finally defeat pen and paper this Christmas, though? Let's think about this logically: - While not releasing any numbers, Amazon announced that more Kindle books were sold than real books through Amazon on Christmas day. - It would make sense that there would be elevated Kindle purchases on Christmas; people getting new Kindles as gifts would certainly want to make them useful by adding their favorite books. - It also makes sense that real book sales would be down. The Christmas shopping season would have passed and most people were concentrating on their families, not shopping, that day. READ MORE : http://mashable.com/2009/12/26/kindle-ebook-sales/