Month: June 2012

eBook Sales Now Lead Hardcovers

[caption id="attachment_1920" align="alignleft" width="100" caption=" "][/caption]According to numbers posted Friday on GalleyCat, sales from eBooks in the first quarter of 2012 topped hardcover sales.

Jason Boog at GalleyCat writes that the sales report from the March Association of American Publishers indicates that net sales revenue from adult eBooks were $282.3 million; hardcover sales, $229.6 million. Last year, during the same period, hardcovers raked in $335 million; eBooks, only $220.4 million.