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Jeff Bezos: eBook Sales Will Suprass Paper Books Very Soon

By Best-eReaders, July 29, 2010

Following the announcment on 2 new Kindle devices, Jeff Bezos gave a short interview to USA Today to explain his take on the evolving world of eReaders and eBooks. For starters, Bezos predicted that Kindle e-book sales will “surpass paperback sales sometime in the next 9 to 12 months,” and that “sometime after that, we’ll surpass the combination of paperback and hardcover.” That’s quite an amazing facts considering the Kindle was first launched less than 3 years ago.

Mr. Bezos also expressed his thoughts on the future of the Kindle. In a response to a question about the “device (hardware) business” Bezos replied:

This is our third generation of Kindle. I hope we’ll be sitting here talking about the 10th and the 20th generation of Kindle. We will also make our apps available on a wide variety of devices so people can read on LCD-based devices, tablet computers, smartphones, laptops. We have taken as a mission to have the best purpose-built reading device. We want to have the best Kindle bookstore.

In another interesting interview on Pocketlint, Steve Kessel — Amazon’s senior vice president of Worldwide Digital Media revealed some Amazon’s future plans regarding a color eReader. Mr Kessel acknowledged the fact that Mirasol QI along with other displays are being tested in Amazon’s labs and might be featured on a future Kindle. However it will probably won’t happen in the near future.

[Source: Engadget]