Wow. I’ve posted a bit about ebooks on this blog, I can’t help thinking they make a lot of sense. It took a lot longer than I would have guessed – I was an early adopter, I bought my first ebook reader in the 1990s – but the practicality of the ebook is starting to take off. Take a look at this chart:

That’s wholesale ebook revenues, by quarter, from 2002 until last quarter, as published by The International Digital Publishing Forum in conjunction with the Association of American Publishers (AAP).

 

My source: Wholesale eBook Sales Statistics

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