Hasta La Ideas

Despite hiccups earlier this year concerning the privacy of its users and their ownership of digital material, the Kindle pulled through, becoming the most gifted item ever in the history of Amazon. Though we don’t have an exact figure, think of the most popular item you could imagine being gifted from Amazon (iPod Touches, Garmin Nuvis, Twilight) and Kindle has sold more.

Another milestone reported by Amazon: on Christmas Day, digital books outsold physical ones, no doubt in response to everyone’s brand new Kindles. While this doesn’t mean that digital books have overtaken physical ones, e-reading seems here to stay and is certainly one of the hot tech topics of the year.

via engadget

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