Sales of Ebooks Compared to Print Books

I had been reading a article on Bloomberg recently. According to the website, ebook sales have overtaken sales of print books for Amazon for the first time. The article also notes that Amazon began as an online retailer for books. In addition, the article notes that the Kindle is the best selling product from Amazon. It is intriguing to see how well ebooks are doing for Amazon compared to print books.

Works Cited

Johnson, James. "E-book Collections for Amazon Kindle Reaching More Libraries, Offering More Content." The Inquisitr. Inquisitr, Ltd., 28 Sept. 2011. Web. 13 Dec. 2011. <http://www.inquisitr.com/145972/e-book-collections-for-amazon-kindle-reaching-more-libraries/>

Project Gutenburg

In my essay on Frankenstein, I had linked to a copy of the novel available on Project Gutenburg. Project Gutenburg is a website dedicated to digitizing books in the public domain and hosting them on their website. Using this website, a person would be able to read many books online as well as download books in many different formats. Before the digital age, a person would have had to either rent a book from the library or bought the book at a bookstore. Because of Project Gutenburg, a person now has many classic books that they could read for free just by looking the book up on the website.

Works Cited

"Project Gutenberg." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., 1 Dec. 2011. Web. 4 Dec. 2011. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Gutenberg>

The Ebook and Reading Habits

I was looking for articles online when I found this article on the Wall Street Journal's website. It is an interesting read on how the ebook might change how people view books. The artcle describes the possible effects of ebooks upon how people read books. In the article, the author Steven Johnson suggests that ebooks would become an impulse buy, but that people would be more likely to hope around from ebook to ebook much as they do with online articles right now. Johnson also suggests that ebooks will be written more for getting better Google search results and enticing people to continue to buy with a cliffhanger in the free first chapter. All and all, Johnson suggests that people will read and write ebooks in the future much as articles are already written for the web.

Works Cited

Lilly, Paul. "Google Helps Sony's eBook Store Surpass 1 Million Mark." Maximum PC. Future US, 30 Jul. 2009. Web. 3 Dec. 2011. <http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/google_helps_sonys_ebook_store_surpass_1_million_mark>