Driven by Amazon's popular Kindle device, e-book sales worldwide will jump from $323 million in 2008 to nearly $9 billion in 2013, according to a new In-Stat forecast. E-book shipments, meanwhile, will soar from under 1 million to almost 29 million in the next five years.
Amazon has wisely released Kindle apps for every major smartphone platform and the iPad, raising the number of prospective customers for ebooks into the tens of millions. I suspect more Kindle books are being sold for non-Kindle devices than the genuine reader from Amazon.
No kindle.... I was in W H smiths last week when a young girl (about 10 or 12) ran into the store with her Mum and Dad. she walked over to a book on the shelf, see what she wanted was in stock and her face lit up like a Christmas tree. when her Mum and Dad said she could have the book her face turned a picture that I will never forget. How sweet was that.
I have a kindle paperwhite and I love the feeling of having a portable library with me everywhere I go. Unfortunately, there are some books that cannot be found in a mobi format, but mostly from other domains (philosophy, psychology etc). But with literature, I think it's just the right thing. Although, there is still a part of me that longs to be in a room full of books.
I have a kindle and it's fabulous. I have one of the older ones so i need a little light on the top, but it's so easy to use, comfy in the hand and i can use it while my husband sleeps. :D