Not exact matches
Publishers keep saying that they do not
see a correlation between the high cost of
ebooks and the overall
decline of
ebook sales.
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.
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.
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.
Print books
saw growth, and for the second consecutive year publisher revenues from
eBook sales
declined and downloaded audio grew.
It remains to be
seen whether the renegotiation of contracts with Amazon, who has cornered around 65 percent of the
eBook market, was what led to the
decline.
The latest numbers come from iSuppli, which says the dedicated
ebook reader market
saw spectacular growth in the last few years, but is now on «an alarmingly precipitous
decline.»
When you read Mike Shatzkin's recent post about the rapidly increasing sales of
ebooks (and the commensurate
decline of paper book sales) you can
see a fierce storm cloud forming.
Following 2008, a lot of public and academic library
saw budget cuts, further exacerbating the
decline of
ebook purchases.
According to Nourry, the «plateau, or rather slight
decline», that
ebook sales have
seen in the US and the UK in recent years is «not going to reverse».
What we
see from the graphs above is that all the reporting lately on the plateauing or
decline in
ebook adoption is certainly true for major publishers, whose numbers are being used as if they represent the broader market, but their daily unit sales are less than a third of the total market.
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 %.)
Senior Writer and Features Editor at Publishers Weekly Interview starts at 12:44 and ends at 32:05 «The fact that we have rapidly
declining eBook sales from major publishers and that we
see for two years running now in the Pew surveys that
eBook...
AAP has released some new numbers this week that point to the trend we
saw in previous findings: that print (paperback and hardcover) and audio sales continue to grow while
ebook sales continue to
decline.
I suspected the latest press on the
decline of
ebooks was overstated, from what I've been
seeing on my own royalty front.
«The US and the UK have
seen a similar phenomenon; in data reported directly by publishers,
ebook sales have
declined by 4 percent in the UK, and in the US the Association for American Publishers reported a drop of 14 percent between 2014 and 2015.»