Amazon Predicts eBook Sales Will Surpass Book Sales Outright

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If you want to gain knowledge, one of the most highly respected ways of doing so is to pick up a book and begin reading. However what happens when you want to learn so much that books begin piling up to the point where it’s impractical to keep them all? Well, if you’re a modern day hipster, perhaps you would make the switch to eBooks. If you’re not familiar with eBooks, they are essentially digitized version of a normal books contents that can then be viewed on a wide array of different devices.

Anyways, when eBooks first were brought to the fore front quite some time ago they were generally brushed off as unnecessary. However, as of late thanks to e-ink devices like the Amazon Kindle and Barnes & Noble Nook coupled with other eBook reading devices like the iPad, the medium has really seen some media attention. But just how far will these electronic books go? Will they ever surpass their physical counterparts in terms of market adoption and sales?

If you’ll remember, last week we let you know that Amazon had reported higher sales of eBooks than hardcover books for that particular quarter. This was quite the amazing feat as never before had such a phenomenon happened. However, physical sales overall are still ousting their electronic counterparts but if Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is to be believed, that won’t be the case for very long.

According to Bezos, Kindle eBook sales will surpass paperback sales sometime within the next 9 to 12 months. Additionally, he has also said that some time after that we will see eBooks surpass both paper back and hardcover sales combined.

This may have been ridiculous just a few years ago but considering all of the eBook readers coming out today for affordable prices (like Amazon’s new Kindle at $139) more and more people will make the shift to digital reading.