Today, Amazon.com claimed in the Wall Street Journal (7/20/10) that their e-books were outselling their hardcover books over the past three months. On Thursday July 24th,  Amazon is going to unveil its numbers and we might get a better idea of how e-books have been selling.  A Seattle vendor states that he has sold 180 Kindle e-books for every 100 hardcover books in the article.

What are your thoughts? Do you own a Kindle or other e-book reader? Do you think that electronic books will surpass and render hardcover and paperbacks obsolete?