In the US, Amazon says its Kindle e-book reader is its most gifted product.Photograph: Mario Tama/Getty Images
From The Guardian:
Online retailer may be on target for sales of 500,000 Kindle e-readers over Christmas.
Spare a thought for the humble hardback this Christmas. It seems the traditional giftwrapped tome is being trumped by downloads, after Amazon customers bought more e-books than printed books for the first time on Christmas Day.
As people rushed to fill their freshly unwrapped e-readers – one of the top-selling gadgets this festive season – the online retailer said sales at its electronic book store quickly overtook orders for physical books. Its own e-reader, the Kindle, is now the most popular gift in Amazon's history.
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