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The Death of the Printed Book

By on May 19, 2011 in Books

TechRadar:

Amazon has announced that it now sells more Kindle ebooks than all print books – that’s hardcover and paperback combined – through the Amazon.com site. Introduced less than four years ago, the Kindle has quickly become Amazon’s top selling product, and now digitised books for the reader have become more popular with its customers than their paper and ink fore-runners.

Wow. Not that I’m surprised. I don’t own a Kindle, but I buy nearly all of my books for the Kindle. (I have an iPad.) 99% of the books that I get the mail these days are review copies sent from publishers. I wonder when that will cease.

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  • http://n.a. Cindy Hawkins

    The word KINDLE in tandem with books and the printed word puts me in mind of Fahrenheit 451, the incredible science fiction tale by Ray Bradbury. (The number referring to the temperature at which paper ignites and burns) Just enough eerie prescience here to make your skin crawl. Will books become obsolete? Outlawed? I don’t really think so. There will always be techno resistors among us (I am one of them) And, in this case, I think the object of the exercise is, rather than forbid us to read: the evolution and popularity of e.books shows that in order to accommodate our lifestyles and demands on our time (less and less leisure) the very act of reading itself IS CHANGING FORM. Books are not gone, they have simply morphed…hmm.

  • http://wahm.business-opportunities.biz Angela Shupe

    I am not surprised, but I doubt the Kindle will ever completely kill off the traditional book. Some people (me included) prefer to hold the book and turn the pages by hand. I only read ebooks when I am on the go. For that, I have the kindle app on my phone.

    My school offers digital chapters for our required reading. It is included in the cost of my tuition. However, I still go out of my way to find a used copy online or print out the chapters (whatever is cheaper) because I don’t like studying at a computer or ereader screen. From what I have seen in the school forum, I am not alone. As long as there are people like me, there will be actual books.

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