Posted by Wesley at Wednesday, December 30, 2009 For the first time, e-books outsold the old-fashioned print-on-paper books this holiday season on Amazon.com.

eBooks, some of them free eBooks, outsold print books this Christmas. On December 26, Amazon announced that, for the first time ever, they had sold more eBooks than physical books on Christmas day. In an interview Jeff Bezos was also quoted as saying that he believes that the print book will eventually disappear. And how much money is Amazon making? How much money are authors and publishers making? When GalleyCat examined the Kindle Store bestsellers, they found that 64 of the 100 bestselling eBooks, the majority, were, in fact, free, including the number one bestseller, “Midnight in Madrid”, by Noel Hynd.

Interesting, but not too surprising. Personally, I agree with JMG… there’s nothing better than having a hard-cover book in your hands and flipping through it’s rough, dry pages to get to the end of the story.

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