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Amazon.com, the leading global bookseller, has revealed that sells-and far-greater number of books in electronic format and in paper format. The ebook revolution is just a step from the point of no return, and U.S. figures can be extrapolated to in a while the rest of the world.

The major online retailer of electronic books (and other products) worldwide, Amazon.com, has issued a press release by the results of its Kindle division, responsible for both sales of the same name as the reader content should make sense.

The figures speak for themselves: over the past three months, for every 100 books sold by Amazon on paper, its customers have purchased 143 electronic books. The proportion is higher if we focus in the last month: 180 per 100 electronic books on paper.

The difference is most apparent when we consider publications that are included with the paper version but not in digital format, so support the acquisition of "traditional" is the only option for the customer, and have neglected the Free electronic publications. Undoubtedly, the difference with their inclusion would have been much more substantial.

During the first half of 2010, Amazon sold three books in digital format in the same period in 2009, a figure supported by the Association of American Publishers, which encrypts the growth of e-book sales by 207% between May 2009 and December 2010.

Kindle remains a benchmark in the sector, especially since its second generation (Kindle DX) in which shortcomings were corrected as support for PDF.

The importance of transoceanic figures

Well, this is for the United States, but ... What we care about the rest of the world? as much. Technological trends are like fashion in the world of clothing: what comes out today in Paris, Milan or New York, will arrive in a few weeks or months to every corner of the planet. In consumer electronics, which is presented today in South Korea, the United States or Japan in a few months will jump to Europe and Central and South America.

That is why, across distances and taking into account substantial differences between the two markets, a conclusion can be extrapolated to the U.S. market as just being for the rest of the world, and this causes the announcement of Amazon.com that much.

Do the dates on which this might happen in other countries? depend on several factors, such as the degree of deployment of electronic book readers and their cost. The implementation of the same vendors like Amazon and other local players will also be important, and resistance or acquiescence of the booksellers "analog", if I may use the adjective.

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