The CEO of Harper Collins Victoria Barnsley said today that «In recent weeks, HarperCollins has seen
its ebook sales growing five to 10 percent, week - on - week.
And according to AAP, revenue for
ebook sales grew 41 percent in 2012 alone, with ebooks accounting for 23 percent of industry sales today.
Book publishers know better: While hardcover sales declined slightly between 2008 and 2012 (from $ 5.2 billion to $ 5 billion),
eBook sales grew at an astonishing clip during that period, rising from $ 64 million to $ 3 billion.
Amazon reports that
their eBook sales grew 4 % last year and even though they are only 80 % of the eBook market, they are not alone.
«In recent weeks, HarperCollins has seen
its ebook sales growing five to 10 percent, week - on - week,» the publisher's international CEO Victoria Barnsley OBE told the World E-Reading Congress, which I attended in London on Tuesday morning.
My ebook sales grew, along with my editing business (but that's another huge success story).
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With print
sales falling by 10 % last year, and book purchasing as a whole down 4 %,
ebook sales were reported to have
grown, according to Nielsen's tracking of book purchases, up 20 % in the UK in 2013, with 80m
ebooks bought by UK consumers, to a value of # 300m.
They don't see the used market in their spreadsheets, just as they don't see
growing indie
ebook sales there, so they have no idea how their decisions are playing out in consumer behavior.
Book publishers are behaving similarly, and largely approaching
ebooks in a protectionist manner to try and add revenue to existing print
sales, then seamlessly transition to digital as that segment
grows.
eBooks have
grown to be a billion dollar business and now accounts for 27 % of all book
sales in the US.
Bear in mind that this does not include
sales by self - published authors, which is the fastest
growing segment in
ebooks thanks to the many new tools and options available.
Ebook sales are
growing every day.
While
ebooks are
growing, print is still the majority of
sales.
Ebook sales will be the driver, not just a
growing segment, of book
sales.
It's not new news that
ebook sales are
growing faster than
sales of traditional paper book.
:) I do think
ebooks will continue to
grow and will dominate publishing
sales.
Also,
growing significantly faster than
ebook sales, are the rentals of used textbooks which are hitting both rentals of new titles and new print
sales.
eBook sales have
grown 80 % at Lulu alone and we want to make sure we're doing everything we can to help your books grace the digital pages of your favorite devices and platforms.
By insisting on blindly continuing to spend copious amounts of money on print runs, only to have them end up as pulp after they have been remaindered by the dwindling number of book shops through low
sales, over the far cheaper and fastest
growing area within literature today — the
eBook, does you no favours whatsoever.
Revenue has also increased steadily, due in part to ever -
growing ebook sales from small presses and self - publishers, effectively discrediting Authors United's claim that there isn't enough money to go around to support midlist authors.
In 2009,
ebooks were just 2 % of Penguin's total
sales,
growing to 12 % last year.
Self - published titles continue to
grow on the Nook Platform and the company said they represent about 25 % of all
eBook sales on Nook devices and
sales are
growing roughly 20 % each quarter.
Print books saw growth, and for the second consecutive year publisher revenues from
eBook sales declined and downloaded audio
grew.
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.
You will benefit from a global approach, learning about the opportunities and obstacles US companies face as they use
ebooks to expand internationally, how international
ebook markets are now
growing robustly and how non-US publishers both learn from the US market experience and expand their
sales here (in their own languages and in English).
Yes,
eBooks sales are
growing quickly, as are the
sales of organic produce.
However,
sales of independently published
ebooks have been
growing, which instead suggests that publishers are losing
ebook market shares to indie authors and Amazon imprints, rather than that the success of digital books and their consumption is dropping overall.
Audiobook
sales continue to be on fire, far outpacing
eBook sales, the next fastest
growing format according to the American Association of Publishers as reported by The Digital Reader.
But if you look at the
sales reports for fiction
ebooks, it appears they've been embraced by a rapidly
growing fiction market too.
In the Writers» and Artists» Yearbook 2017, Philip Jones argues that as growth from the big publishers slows, «the market itself continues to
grow — mostly via small publisher
ebook sales or those derived through self - publishers.»
In 2009,
eBooks made for only $ 113,000,000 of first quarter
sales in the (over) $ 24,000,000,000 publishing market.5 Today, they are among the most popular products purchased online — which keeps that line of numbers
growing continually.
In a world where traditional publishers are still basically brokering to sell and warehouse paper rather than books (i.e. sticking to an antiquated business model in a market where
ebooks are rapidly
growing to be the majority of
sales and shouldn't be ignored), this is a landmark deal.
As the study showed, digital book
sales for about one - third of the
ebooks publishers now make up double digit revenue, and the
sales of
ebooks in many categories are continuing to
grow.
I read much more now that I've switched to
ebooks and by watching the
sales, discounts, etc., I've been able to
grow my «books waiting to be read» library likely large enough to last the rest of my life.
But they can look at their royalty statements, see the
growing percentage of
eBook sales overtaking their print
sales.
2018 is underway and
ebook sales are
growing every month.
February 2016 Author Earnings Report: Amazon's
Ebook, Print, and Audio
Sales Two years ago, the first Author Earnings report revealed the
growing market share of self - published
ebooks.
So... I'm describing this slide show to the other professional writers at lunch, and I (the mathematician's daughter who
grew up on a steady diet of statistical analysis and probabilities [my father's two favorite subjects]-RRB- hear myself say, «Digital Book World asked this guy to examine the impact of
ebook sales on hardcover
sales, making the study flawed in the first place.»
For most publishers, this early - stage market reality results in production
growing pains and business model challenges, often overshadowed by the allure of
eBook sales figures.
Sales for eReading devices like the Kindle and Nook continue to rise each year, so the initial ability to purchase
ebooks as gifts (around Christmas of 2010) is
growing in response.
Greenfield's article yesterday shows that children's
ebook sales — while continuing to
grow — have slowed from the first half of the year.
eBook sales have been on the rise thanks to
growing segments like Young Adult Fiction, where we have seen growth by over 233 %.
The overwhelming attitude that has been adopted by the industry is that
ebook sales are already significant in their numbers and are only expected to
grow; the publishing industry must be ready to adapt to whatever format books are selling in.
PubSoft's publisher dashboard currently offers far too many features to identify, but highlights include a publisher - branded interface for the
growing number of readers who are seeking out publisher websites for information on their favorite authors, a branded
ebook store where their readers can purchase titles, real - time data on tracking book
sales and royalties, and more.
Ebook sales are only going to
grow stronger.
A
growing number of independent authors, selling
ebooks without a publisher, are making significant numbers of
sales.
(Print
sales started to
grow even before «new Agency»; when higher prices hit the
ebook market, print was immediately assisted.)
eBook sales is
growing rapidly, and soon the paper book will a thing of the past.