After two years of release on Kindle in the UK, sales of digital books Amazon has surpassed sales of print books . English readers received the Kindle in August 2010 and by May the following year, sold more digital books hardcover copies with a ratio of two to one. This latest milestone includes hardcover books such as smooth.
Amazon said that this is especially exciting as they reached this milestone in the United Kingdom in half the time in the U.S., where it took over two years that digital books outweigh the hardcover and nearly four years to overcome physical copies in general . Despite the rapid adoption, the company said that its sales of printed books continues to grow.
Amazon.co.uk has sold 114 Kindle books for every 100 books printed so far in 2012, excluding Kindle books are not included costs but hardcover copies without digital versions. The company also reported that people with a Kindle are more likely to read and buy four times more material than they did before. Although many are still buying printed books.
Finely, three authors in the top 10 Kindle - Nick Spalding, Katia Lief and Kerry Wilkinson - were posted through the KDP ( Direct Kindle Publishing ) from Amazon, which pays up to 70% in royalties. As always, Amazon would rather not share exact numbers but mentioned that Wilkinson has sold over 300,000 copies of his books and EL James, author of Fifty Shades of Grey, has broken records in both the digital and physical copies market, selling more than two million Kindle books in just four months.
