Kindle Books Outsell Printed Copies On Christmas Day 2009

It’s amazing how quickly the Amazon Kindle e-book reader has been accepted by the buying public. It really was a huge success for Amazon in 2009. It became their best selling product very rapidly indeed. It was also the most “gifted” item ever according to Amazon and they even sold more Kindle books than standard printed editions on Christmas day of 2009. Many of those sales would have been due to new users, who had received a Kindle as a gift, trying their device out as soon as they had unwrapped it no doubt. Nevertheless, it is a significant milestone, both for Amazon and for e-book readers in general.