Which is, you know, not at all surprising given the medium.

Not only that, but it was on the heels of an aggressive marketing campaign for what was a nifty new product.

So it's not evidence for the decline of physical books at all, not in and of itself.

When regular bookstores start selling more e-books than physical books it will be a good indication that physical books are no longer part of the mainstream. And that won't happen for many, many years, if at all.


I say this as someone who owns and loves a Kindle. It's certainly much more portable, more space-saving, and greener (well, not sure about the component parts of the e-readers themselves). But I will never, ever give up physical books. The reading experience of an e-reader is far inferior to that of a physical book.