While sales through shops increased 7 % in 2016,
ebook sales declined by 4 %.
Nielsen survey finds UK
ebook sales declined by 4 % in 2016, the second consecutive year digital has shrunk
Print books saw growth, and for the second consecutive year publisher revenues from
eBook sales declined and downloaded audio grew.
The ebook sales decline in the United States is related to traditional publishing and possibly its high pricing.
and tradpub keeps complaining about
ebook sales declining... and indi makes more and more... these events are connected.
Are
Ebook Sales Declining?
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Not exact matches
Ebooks are once again under the microscope as numerous reports point out their supposedly
declining sales.
We can all agree that
eBook sales are dramatically increasing, and there is a steady
decline in print
sales (but not as acutely as
eBook sales going up, not by a long shot).
Take for instance the findings of Nielsen BookData compiled in its latest report, Understanding the E-book Consumer that has revealed a 9 %
decline in
sales of
ebooks in May over the same period a month ago in the UK.
Publishers keep saying that they do not see a correlation between the high cost of
ebooks and the overall
decline of
ebook sales.
E-Book
sales declined by 4.6 % over the first four months of 2017 and the format generated $ 374.9 dollars, during the same period of 2016 total
ebook sales were over $ 392.9.
They lump audiobooks and
ebooks into a single digital category and the only the only they say is the
decline in
ebook sales were not as pronounce because audiobook
sales have dramatically increased.
Much like the headache of licensing
ebooks to libraries stateside, Japanese patrons and librarians have been frustrated by the lack of bestselling and new release content available for digital lending, for many of the same reasons that publishers in the US have balked at making their entire catalogs available to libraries, namely fears that print
sales will
decline.
Except of course that
ebook sales have not plateaued or
declined as the article suggests.
eBook sales have shown a positive growth during the last few years, while conventional printed books have shown a steady
decline in
sales for the last eight years in row.
Sales of old - fashioned print books are up for the third year in a row, according to the Association of American Publishers, while ebook sales have been decli
Sales of old - fashioned print books are up for the third year in a row, according to the Association of American Publishers, while
ebook sales have been decli
sales have been
declining.
Some of the
ebook decline we're seeing may be attributable to higher
ebook prices from traditional publishers, as well as rapidly falling Nook
sales.
Stone went on to warn publishers to be more alert than ever, taking care not to underestimate Bezos in the wake of reported
declining ebook sales.
While traditional publishers (actually, the top end publishers) are fighting over business and legal issues, like any big business, you adapt and work with what works —
eBooks still represent a minority in
sales, but it is rapidly catching up to print, and by all accounts, has already passed hardcover (which has been in
decline in a slow death since the advent of paperbacks and trade paperbacks in the 40s and 50s).
Two reasons for this: one, best practice for ISBNs is that if I really wanted to sell the PDF, I'd need another one, and two, PDF
sales have
declined sharply in
ebook markets in general since the
sales numbers haven't supported them.
Secondly, we can be sure that
eBook sales are rising at an amazing rate — according to the Guardian, citing The Publisher's Association, over 300 percent per year since 2010, and print is
declining, except in parts of the world where
eBooks have yet to make inroads.
Contrary to the hype, it would appear that the reason those pundits are claiming a
decline in
ebook sales is because indie authors are taking significant market share from traditional publishers.
If they continue to rise in cost, users will not buy them and
ebook sales will continue to
decline.
Sales of adult fiction
ebooks increased by 13 %, but children's digital editions
declined by 30 %.
Participants will be asked to engage with issues such as
declining physical book
sales, the place of
ebooks, the cultural importance of bookshops and author events, the specialist knowledge of booksellers, and how bookshops can provide customers with a place to buy books, however they decide to read them.
If you look at the recent
decline in
eBook sales, this is partly attributed to the abolishment of the Agency price model of selling books.
The Association of American Publishers, which collects monthly data from about 1,200 publishers, said last month that
eBook sales had been flat or in
decline for most of 2013.
Barnes and Noble might be seeing a 30 %
decline on their hardware and
eBook sales during the past holiday season, but they they do have user loyalty.
Since 2012, the growth of
eBooks has slowed significantly as dedicated e-Reader
sales are
declining, and tablet PC devices are increasingly becoming utilized for other forms of entertainment.
The New York Times just put out an article citing the
decline of
eBook sales as the simple fact that it had climbed too high for too long and it is stabilizing along with the fact that traditional paperbacks are growing in popularity.
Industry watchers keep sharing impossible headlines, everything from «print is dead,» to «
ebooks sales are in
decline.»
In August,
eBook sales were approximately $ 128 million, a 3 %
decline from August 2012.
barnes and noble is not making new devices, they are doing it through Samsung Sony did stop selling
eBooks and e-readers, Reading did
decline for the most part this year, in terms of
eBook sales overall not sure about e-ink and its doubling of market share, will have to ping
Ebooks work really well for fiction but there has been a
decline in the
sales of non-fiction in
ebook format.
Traditional publishers, Poynter claimed, haven't updated their business practices since 1947, and physical bookstores»
sales have been rapidly
declining, while
sales of
eBooks are increasing (Coker).
Amazon
declined the offer, and removed Macmillan
ebooks from
sale on the Amazon site.
Hachette's
ebook sales have
declined, but it remains determined to price its own e-books and loosen Amazon's grip on the market.
Barnes & Noble is considered the No. 2 or No. 3
ebook retailer, although in the last year or two, it has suffered dramatic
sales declines and pulled back on its international presence; now the only country where you can buy Nook
ebooks is the United States.
(
Ebook sales are increasing there rather than
declining, as in the U.S.)
Since 2015 however there has been a
decline in
ebook sales, and whilst some are predicting a return to steady growth, one has to question if this is possible whilst they continue to maintain the same format.
Some people believe that
eBook sales are on the
decline.
Decline in
eBooks sales does not necessarily mean the increase in paper book
sales.
What is even more interesting is that the greater proliferation of
ebooks has not led to a
decline in
sales of printed books.
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.
The only hard numbers cited are about the
decline in the
eBooks sales.
In the first three months of 2017 audio
sales increased by 28.8 % and
eBooks declined by 5.3 %.
Successful indie authors are causing the
decline of reported
eBook sales.
Over the course of the past few years major publishers have consistently reported that
ebook sales have been
declining steadily.