And here you thought brick and mortar stores were done.
Not quite yet. Apparently George R.R. Martin has done them a big favor by releasing his fifth book, A Dance with Dragons, this week.
Julie Bosman of the New York Times reports that independent booksellers report that Dragons has quickly become the bestseller of the summer.
Bosman writes: "It also temporarily upended the conventional wisdom in the book business that devoted readers of genre fiction — whether romance, sci-fi or fantasy — have begun to prefer reading in e-book format over print. According to first-day sales collected by Random House, more than 170,000 print copies and 110,000 e-book copies sold on Tuesday, the largest opening for a Random House book in 2011."
Interest in the series has been bolstered by the HBO series Game of Thrones, which is based on Martin's "Song of Ice and Fire" series.
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