Not exact matches
In Europe
eBook sales dramatically increased by 219 % and garnered around $ 5.8 million
dollars in
revenue.
Audiobook and
ebook sales now account for 22 % of total
revenue for the quarter and generated $ 82 million
dollars.
But the site that so many readers — and even self - published authors — are not all that familiar with is actually accumulating impressive numbers, with over 80,000 authors and publishers launching more than 230,000
ebooks, which translates into
revenue of more than $ 20 million last year, a five million
dollar increase over the year before.
That is a lot of money, but not in comparison to the AAP's figures for 2014
ebook revenues for the trade publishing industry, which totaled an estimated $ 3.37 billion
dollars.
Looking at our own data from early February 2014 and late January 2015, we measure a 4.7 % drop in Big 5 publisher
dollar revenue from
ebooks at Amazon, not 8 %.
As was recently reported by the American Association of Publishers, the Big 5 publishing group and roughly 1200 other reporting traditional publishers collectively saw an 8 % drop in
ebook dollar sales
revenue in late January 2015 compared to early February 2014.