It might be a sad day for bookstores, but it’s a great day for readers. According to the Association of American Publishers, ebook sales rose 115% in January beating out both paperback and hardcover sales in the same month.

Paperback sales in January were dismal, dropping to 39 million, well below ebooks’ 69.9 million sales figure. Adult hardcover books pulled in $49.1 million which is an 11.3%  drop. The only kind of book beating ebooks were trade paperbacks which pulled in $83.6 million.

Marketers have long used ebooks as a reward in return for a potential client’s email address, but now that people have shown they’re willing to buy ebooks, why not look at ebooks as an opportunity to bring in some income.

This past week saw rumors of a stratospheric Groupon valuation ($25 billion) as well the New York Times’ great paywall experiment being announced. While we wrote a fair amount covering the Internet marketing news landscape there were a few items that did get the attention you think they may have deserved. Either that or we ignored them because they weren’t interesting but now they are interesting because we need them. So many options.

Facebook Used to Thwart a Robbery. Here’s the video version for you to ponder just how poorly the 911 system must be considered in the Cartersville, GA area (via cnet).

Microsoft is viewed as more ethical than Apple, Google or Facebook – Not even sure how Facebook got into a discussion about ethics unless it was one about having few if any.