According to a Publishers Weekly summary of an Association of American Publishers (AAP) study, while overall book sales were down 2 % in 2012, adult book sales increased by 5.6 % partly due to a 33 % rise in
adult ebook purchases.
Maria Cipriano is in charge of
adult eBook purchasing and curating and gave her thoughts on how she approaches audiobook and e-book curation to serve the needs of the community.
Not exact matches
In 2013, Nielsen's Books & Consumers survey shows that among U.S. buyers of
adult fiction and nonfiction, 25 % of book buyers bought an
eBook and 31 % of new books
purchased in
adult fiction and nonfiction were
eBooks.
More
adult fiction is
purchased in
ebook format than any other format.
Better yet, the one or more
adults in the household with direct access to the account (and password) should be the one (s)
purchasing any
ebooks for the elibrary.
There are
ebooks that
adults purchase which are not for readers of certain age groups.
74 % of self - published
eBooks purchased were
adult fiction, 23 % of which were Romance.
It does make me wonder how well the interests of traditionally - published authors are served, though, by that uncoordinated and territorial print - first approach — especially now that the majority of
adult fiction books
purchased today are digital editions (
ebooks and audiobooks).
The Global
Ebook Report points out that in 2013, every fourth book bought in the UK was an ebook; a growing tendency which is even more striking if we only consider adult fiction: 40 % of the book purchases were dig
Ebook Report points out that in 2013, every fourth book bought in the UK was an
ebook; a growing tendency which is even more striking if we only consider adult fiction: 40 % of the book purchases were dig
ebook; a growing tendency which is even more striking if we only consider
adult fiction: 40 % of the book
purchases were digital.
points out that in 2013, every fourth book bought in the UK was an
ebook; a growing tendency which is even more striking if we only consider
adult fiction: 40 % of the book
purchases were digital.
In
Adult Fiction, the
ebook share rose from one in three books bought in 2012, to over 40 % of
purchases in 2013, with
ebooks also gaining in
Adult NonFiction (to one in eight
purchases) and in Children's books (up to one in ten).