In last year's first quarter,
hardcover sales accounted for -LSB-...]
Not exact matches
The value you use for total revenue would have to take
account of the loses in
hardcover (and paperback)
sales as well.
According to a recent survey by Nielsen Books, eBook
sales made up 23 % of unit
sales for the first six months of 2014, while
hardcover's
accounted for 25 % and paperbacks 42 %.
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).
According to a new report by Nielsen paperback
sales accounted for 42 % of all book
sales, followed by
hardcovers with 25 % and finally eBooks with a paltry 23 %.
In the first quarter of 2012
hardcover books
accounted for $ 229 million dollars in
sales whereas ebooks... [Read more...]
During the same period last year,
hardcover accounted for $ 335 million in
sales while eBooks logged $ 220.4 million.