Amazon says eBooks outsell hardback books for the first time

Amazon report that in the second quarter 2010 it sold 143 ebooks for every 100 hardback books. Amazon Kindle ebook reader price fell from £200 to £149 (3G+Wifi) or £109 (Wifi) in June 2010 and concommitantly sales of ebooks have risen threefold. But less than 10% of US population own an ebook reader so it will be several years before ebooks outgrow sales of paperbacks and hardbacks. source: Computer Shopper (October 2010).