Something I wrote BEFORE BB's latest. . . . Not to mention 8 million Kindles, half as many as iPads. . . . Oops!!! Was I not supposted to reveal that. . . . Letes not forget, I don't support any particular products, at least in this moment in this context. /// A Little About Amazon and eBooks Amazon recently sold three times as many eBooks as hardbacks, and, for the first time, more eBooks than paperbacks. Amazon, long master of keeping the numbers out of focus, tells us their sales of eBooks, which has been greater than hardbacks for some time... is now also larger than their sales of paperbacks. In yet more of this fuzziness, Amazon says this does not include free eBooks, such as those from Project Gutenberg, nor will they say how many of those go out. However, with 115 eBooks going out to every 100 paperbacks, that is big news, and you can actually add these figures together, as follows: 300+ eBooks for every 100 hardbacks 115+ eBooks for every 100 paperbacks. However, they tell us that the total of hardbacks and paperbacks is now still enough to outnumber eBook sales. Now all we need to know is their proportion of hardbacks to paperbacks. By the way, they only announced more eBooks than hardbacks in mid 2010, and now more eBooks than paperbacks in 2011, which means it won't be an awful long time, perhaps only months, before it's the totals. . . . We should also consider that these figures are not parallel in that the figures include paper books that don't have any eBook version, and as I mentioned above, they refuse to count free eBooks. So far the average Amazon eBook is still selling for over $10 even if a press release touted that over 2/3 million eBooks were Amazon available for $9.99 or less, but the best seller list is more like $15. . . . Amazon is still struggling increase its eBook catalog to one million. We are expecting FIVE million FREE eBooks at The World eBook Fair, from July 4 through August 4 at: http://www.worldebookfair.org