According to the March Association of American Publishers (AAP) net sales revenue report (collecting data from 1,189 publishers),
adult eBook sales were $ 282.3 million while adult hardcover sales counted $ 229.6 million during the first quarter of 2012.
They dropped every month for the first 5 months of 2015 (the most recent month that data's available from the AAP); for that period in total,
adult ebook sales are down 3.2 percent compared to 2014, while young
adult ebook sales (think books like Hunger Games and Divergent, which have a huge adult crossover audience) are down 43.3 percent.
So far, juvenile ebook sales lag behind
adult ebook sales by a significant margin.
Adult ebook sales have declined for 4 months in a row.
Postscript 2: «While
adult ebook sales had been pretty stable through most of the year, the trend that started in September (with sales falling almost 8 percent) deepened in October, as
adult ebook sales of $ 83.6 million were down $ 23.7 million — or 22 percent — compared to the same month a year ago [as tabulated by their pool of approximately 1,200 publishers].»
Traditionally published children's ebooks fell 22 % in 2017, while young
adult ebook sales fell 8 %.
Not exact matches
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.
When you consider that most of these
ebook sales would be for non-illustrated
adult fiction and non-fiction — well under half of the $ 2.91 B — it's quite likely that the
ebook share is closer to a third.
This is significant news, if not the «tipping point» that Amazon claims (as of May, according to the AAP,
ebook sales are 8.48 % of trade
sales;
adult hardcovers are 43.2 %).
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While predictions vary, with some analysts suggesting e-readers will be edged out by tablets, last December's holiday
sales tallied by the Pew Research Centre found that
ebook reader ownership jumped to 19 per cent from 10 per cent among
adults in the United States.
Sales of
adult fiction
ebooks increased by 13 %, but children's digital editions declined by 30 %.
According to the survey,
ebooks sales in the
adult trade fiction category increased in 2013 over 2012, up 3.8 % to a yearly total of $ 1.3... [Read more...]
A reason to explain the tremendous increase in
sales of children's
ebooks is that the segment is in its formative years and has yet to reach the level of maturity that the corresponding
adult's segment has reached.
According to the survey,
ebooks sales in the
adult trade fiction category increased in 2013 over 2012, up 3.8 % to a yearly total of $ 1.3 billion.
Hardcover
sales in
adult trade fiction and non-fiction combined increased to a total of $ 1.5 billion in 2013;
ebooks in fiction - only sold almost as much as hardcover for both fiction and non-fiction for
adults — despite the typically lower price point of
ebooks compared to hardcover and paperback — a fact that speaks to the need to revamp the strategy by which publishers perceive digital - first and
ebook - only.
Tellingly,
ebooks for young
adults and children shot up 233 percent, and this shouldn't surprise anybody (by comparison,
adult hardcover book
sales were up, slightly, 2.7 percent).
Jason Boog at GalleyCat writes that the
sales report from the March Association of American Publishers indicates that net
sales revenue from
adult eBooks were $ 282.3 million; hardcover
sales, $ 229.6 million.
The trend of more moderate growth for
ebooks in the U.S. in 2012 continued in Sept. as
sales of
adult trade
ebooks were up 30.7 %, much less than the triple - digit
sales growth seen in
ebooks in previous years.
While the majority of
adult fiction
sales came from
ebooks in 2016, the concept of «digital fatigue» isn't going away anytime soon.
A lot of data was presented to the attendees about the low numbers of
ebook sales in children's and young
adult literature, although there was information that the popularity among digital editions for those readers is on the rise in the past year.
The strongest growth in publishing right now would be
Adult Fiction
ebooks, capturing 30 % of total net publisher dollar
sales.
Ebooks have a much smaller share of the
adult nonfiction market, 12 %, but
sales in the segment rose 3 % last year, to 38 million unit.»
Ebook sales were down 8 % in the young
adult category, falling to 4 million units sold.
According to Publishers Weekly «
Adult fiction remained the most popular
ebook category — 44 % of
sales in the category were in the digital format — but
ebook sales in the segment dropped 14 % from 2016, to 108 million units.
According to Jones, authors and publishers would welcome an «
adult debate» about
ebook sales and author earnings, but in the absence of
sales figures from Amazon that's just not possible.
Ebooks now account for 27 % of all
adult trade
sales.
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[Nielsen Book's] quiet PubTrack Digital service — the only source of real, granular
ebook sales data, based on invoices for
ebook sales from participating publishers — shows
adult fiction still accounting for 65 percent of all
ebook sales.
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eBook sales have been on the rise thanks to growing segments like Young
Adult Fiction, where we have seen growth by over 233 %.
Kobo recently raised the ire of some authors due to restrictions in its self - publishing platform, Writing Life, due to the appearance of erotica and
adult - themed self - published
ebooks making their way into online book retailers» children's sections, with the end result being a statement from the company that they will not consider for
sale certain inappropriate thematic elements and that, like most of the other retailers including Amazon and Barnes and Noble, they would be deleting titles whose metadata or keywords seemed intentionally misleading.
According PW,
sales of
adult print books fell 10.3 % in the first quarter of 2016, compared to the first period of 2015, and
ebook sales in the same category fell 19 %.
Ebooks are now THE dominant
sales format for
adult fiction; bigger than hardcover, bigger than paperback.
According to Romance Writers of America, 39 percent of romantic fiction is published in
eBook format, and romantic fiction accounts for more than $ 1 billion in
sales and 13 percent of all
adult fiction.
On that criteria alone, probably not, especially since
eBooks are now the dominant format in
adult fiction accounting for 40 % of
sales.
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eBooks exploded in the
adult fiction category last year, accounting for 30 percent of net publisher
sales in 2011 - up from 13 percent the year before.
April
sales in the children's / young
adult category fell 12.6 % with
ebook sales plunging 51.6 % in the month and hardcover
sales off 12.1 %.
As reported by Digital Book World,
adult trade
ebook sales were up 20.7 % in Nov. 2012 compared to Nov. 2011.
Nielsen offers specific figures on how
ebook sales have affected print
sales in
adult fiction,
adult nonfiction, and juvenile categories.
In 2010 young -
adult ebooks made up about 6 % of the total digital
sales for titles published by St. Martin's Press, but so far in 2011, the number is up to 20 %.
Ebook sales now represent 10 % of total Group continuing turnover (2011: 6 %) and 15 % of the
Adult division continuing turnover (2011: 9 %).