Which isn't really saying much, since hardcover sales are not huge anyway, and we already knew ebook sales were rising. Amazon will only speak in percentages, not in hard numbers, so this "news" is hard to quantify, but it tracks what we see with every other tech advancement. When it is cheaper and easier to acquire and use, a given item will be acquired and used more.
Christmas day Kindle books outsold real books on Amazon. This too was no big deal, since nobody buys books on Christmas day, but everyone who got a Kindle tried it out (with a likely free or heavily discounted book) as soon as they unwrapped their neato new toy.
An eBook version of a given book is de riguer if you wish to publish, but eBooks will neither supplant printed books nor reduce market for all books.
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