Is the end of the printed book in sight?

IS the end of the printed book in sight?

The announcement from Amazon that is selling more ebooks in America than print books might show it could be.

Since April 1, Amazon has said it has sold 105 ebooks to every 100 print books in America. The company brought out its Kindle electronic book reader there four years ago.

In the UK the ebook is bought by more people than the hardback, according to Amazon. They released figures showing they have sold more ebooks than hardbacks. The Kindle was launched in Britain in August 2010.

You can buy up to 650,000 ebooks at Amazon.co.uk.

The bestselling ebook titles at Amazon.co.uk of this year are Stephen Leather’s The Basement and The Hanging Shed by Gordon Ferris.

Despite all the fuss of ebooks, I still think I would rather buy an actual book than purchase an ebook.

Although I have yet to read anything on an ebook, so I don’t know what they are like.

Talking about download books outselling print books in America Jeff Bezos, founder and chief executive of Amazon told the Guardian: “We had high hopes that this would happen eventually, but we never imagined it would happen so quickly.”

Meanwhile, it was a shame that Liverpool could not grab fifth place from Tottenham for a place in the Europa league. Let’s hope Liverpool do better in the league next year.