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Five years of Kindle in Italy: Milan is the city that loves more … – Corriere della Sera

Milan December 2, 2016 – 12:49

From the best-selling books to the Regions where e-books are most appreciated, everything that there is to know on the fifth birthday of the reader of electronic books of Amazon

the Italian debut of The eBook reader of Amazon, the Kindle, is which occurred on the 1 December 2011. Five years later, the number of italians who have learned to appreciate the pleasure of reading in a new way has grown: according to Istat, in 2015 4,687 million italians read at least one eBook. And 6 percent of those who do not have books in the home declares to have read at least one in digital format. More players also means more ebooks, and in fact, in these five years, the selection of electronic books on the Kindle Store, the virtual store of Amazon, is fivefold, going from 1 million to 5 million titles. Those in Italian are 180 thousand: in 2011, there were 29.0000.

At the beginning the idea of reading giving up the paper it seemed strange to many. And certainly there are still those who prefer the dear old book, and everything. But the convenience of the eBook reader has convinced many italians, the idea of having dozens of books concentrated in a few grams especially like to those who travel a lot or use public transportation. And then there is the price of the eBook, the lowest of fees on paper. Result? The Kindle Paperwhite, launched in 2013, is often on the top of the list of devices of electronics sold on Amazon.en.

December 2, 2016 | 12:49

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