E-book sales are up 146 percent over last year, while hardback sales increased 6 percent and paperbacks decreased 8 percent.

电子书销量比去年增长了146%，而精装本销量增长了6%，平装本销量下降了8%。

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All this will drive e-book sales.

这一切都将促进电子图书的销量。

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Research company Nielsen found that in the UK, sales of e-books are falling while sales of paper books are rising.

尼尔森研究公司发现，在英国，电子书的销量在下降，而纸质书的销量在上升。

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A report from the e-Marketer research group predicts that worldwide,tablet sales will reach more than eighty-one million in two thousand twelve.

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Other publishers gave e-sales information, but only of select titles.

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When the company reported on Wednesday that e-book and e-reader sales were up 30% over last year and that pre-orders for the new line of Nook e-readers were up 240% over past versions of the device, shares jumped.

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But it hopes that its cheap tablet will be wildly popular and therefore boost sales of Amazon's cloud-based content, just as the Kindle e-reader boosted sales of e-books.

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