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Ebook sales increasing steadily
January 10th, 2010 by Frank
The day may be coming when more books, in digital format or otherwise, may be sold online than in brick-and-mortar stores.According to an Associated Press poll released last year, one in four adults read no books of any kind in 2006. And those who do read prefer digital copies over the traditional hardbound copies or paperbacks. The Association of American Publishers says that the sales of ebooks have grown at a compound rate of 55.7 percent a year since 2002, compared with a growth rate of only 2.5% in sales of paper books. This is probably due in large part to the development of portable personal digital assistants (PDAs) and the popular Amazon product, the Kindle.