By the way, the Friends of the Library will hold a Blooming Book Sale on Saturday, June 23, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the library. All books will be 50 percent off, but the sale is only for members.

Amazon got a lot of attention yesterday for announcing that over the last three months, it's sold 143 e-books for every 100 hardcover books. In the last month, the ratio is 180 to 100.

Why books come out in hardback before paperback Premium-quality hardbacks command a high price on the book's release, before cheaper paperbacks mop up mass-market sales. Share.

Ebooks make up about 15 per cent of books sold in the UK, a market which is estimated to be worth £260million this year. Amazon amounts to as much as 80 per cent of the ebook market.

In 2019, 24 of the bestselling hardback novels were priced at £12.99–a price point that appears to have been deserted in 2022, given just two of the top 100 hardback fiction bestsellers of the ...