The future has arrived:
This is from the Mashable! site. Excerpt:
"In a statement, CEO Jeff Bezos said, “Last July we announced that Kindle books had passed hardcovers and predicted that Kindle would surpass paperbacks in the second quarter of this year, so this milestone has come even sooner than we expected – and it’s on top of continued growth in paperback sales.”... the company adds that for 2010, it sold 115 Kindle books for every 100 paperback books, and “three times as many Kindle books as hardcovers.” Those numbers don’t include free Kindle books, making the numbers all the more significant. The growth in e-books, as well as strong sales of the Kindle 3, helped Amazon achieve $10 billion in a single quarter for the first time in its history ..."
I don't know. While there's a lot to like about ebooks, you still can't beat the look, feel, and even the smell of a freshly-printed book. Or even an old book. And I do feel strange taking the laptop into the bathroom.
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