«In nearly all media coverage of the AAP's
declining ebook revenue, their sales — the sales of just 1,200 traditional publishers — are being conflated with the overall sales of the entire US ebook market.
Three big publishers that signed new pacts with Amazon — Lagardere SCA's Hachette Book Group, News Corp's HarperCollins Publishers and CBS Corp.'s Simon & Schuster — reported
declining ebook revenue in their latest reporting periods.
Not exact matches
Ebooks, which the AAP says peaked in 2013 at $ 3.24 billion, saw
revenue decline $ 2.84 billion in 2015, after
declining to $ 3.20 billion in 2014.
Print books saw growth, and for the second consecutive year publisher
revenues from
eBook sales
declined and downloaded audio grew.
The publisher failed to disclose how much of their
revenue was digital, which leads me to believe that
ebook sales are continuing to fall, but the overall digital
decline is not as pronounced because of audiobooks.
Revenues for digital formats were mixed, with downloaded audio growing 28.8 % and
eBooks declining by 5.3 %.
I wish the
decline were only 15 % — our
ebook revenues dropped by more than 60 % once the self - publishing industry took off.
Barnes and Noble has experienced
declining revenues for hardware and
ebooks for the last full calender year and the company is looking to shake things up.
Stable physical retail environment: If Barnes & Noble collapses or shelf space continues to
decline, the percentage of
revenues from
ebooks could increase.
The Association of American Publishers show that the Big Five publishers»
eBook revenues continue to
decline for the first half of 2016 — data for the second half will most likely come out in the May 2017 timeframe.
that the Big Five publishers»
eBook revenues continue to
decline for the first half of 2016 — data for the second half will most likely come out in the May 2017 timeframe.
Publishers are already struggling to grow their
ebook revenue fast enough to make up for their ongoing print
revenue decline.
While
eBooks continued to
decline overall compared to August 2016 -LRB--7.1 %), and are down year - to - date -LRB--5.3 %), Religious Presses saw an increase in
eBook revenue in August (+10 %) and also year - to - date (11.9 %.)
So we learned yesterday, directly from the Association of American Publishers, that publishers» overall
revenue from
ebook sales are
declining.