Retail giant Amazon has said its customers are now buying twice as many Kindle versions of the top 10 best-selling books as print versions.
“Kindle books are also outselling print books for the top 25, 100, and 1000 bestsellers – it’s across the board,” senior vice president of Amazon Kindle Steve Kessel said in a statement.
“This is remarkable when you consider that we’ve been selling hardcover and paperback books for 15 years, and Kindle books for just 36 months.”
The company has previously said that it is recording strong sales of its Kindle eReader devices, but it does not release official sales figures. However, Kessel did say the gadget is continuing to record strong sales.
“It’s still October and we’ve already sold more Kindle devices since launch than we did during the entire fourth quarter of last year – astonishing because the fourth quarter is the busiest time of year on Amazon,” Kessel said.
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