Did Kindle eBooks Really Sell Well? Or Did the Physical Book Market Simply Tank Big Time?

Interesting observation by Jason Boog on GalleyCat (a MediaBistro blog like this one)…

64 of the 100 Top Kindle Store Bestsellers Are Free

But, if Amazon’s goal is to sell a lot of Kindle devices to kickstart ebook reading, this seems like a good thing to me. It means you have ebook content to read soon after unwrapping your Kindle which was, according to Amazon…

Amazon Kindle is the Most Gifted Item Ever on Amazon.com

The same Amazon press release notes: On Christmas Day, for the first time ever, customers purchased more Kindle books than physical books.

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