The chain has also made some major investments in tech, and is on track to surpass $ 1 billion
in digital sales in 2017.
Over the last few years physical and retail sales in the gaming market have slowly fallen, mainly due to the
rise in digital sales over the same period.
He found that this caused a statistically significant increase
in digital sales once it was gone for good.
We wouldn't be surprised if the
rise in digital sales were even more rapid if the current barriers among types of software and devices broke down entirely.
Despite seeing significant
growth in digital sales on the Nintendo eShop, the Nintendo Network is still widely seen to be in its infancy in comparison to PlayStation Network and Xbox Live.
Also, the data mentioned above does not
factor in digital sales, so it's definitely possible Kirby Star Allies actually had the best or second best debut for a Kirby game ever... especially since it was released on a Friday, one day later in the week than the other games (due to the worldwide release).
All this came during a general slowdown in e-book sales overall, with a 10 %
drop in digital sales in 2015, according to the Association of American Publishers.
Within a few short months the average bestseller increased in price from $ 9.99 to $ 16.999 and the two year
decline in digital sales begun, forcing companies like Sony to exit the field entirely.
DC has released rankings for their top digital books over the past few months to CBR, and the response to this material seems to be very strong, with the Beyond books ranking up there
in digital sales with the New 52.
Publishers saw huge
spikes in digital sales during and after the holidays, after people received e-readers as gifts.
Akenhead said: «For my entire publishing career, through a decade as an editor, two
years in digital sales and three great years as an ebook retailer with Kobo, I have sought the same things - a passion for storytelling, smart publishing, and great books.
For retail sales, the game managed to sell 445k units according to Nintendo, but
adding in digital sales brings that number to more than 500k in the United States alone.
Despite the introduction of a new e-reader, the lack of new tablet hardware led to a 50.4 % decrease in Nook sales in Q3 and a 26.5 %
tumble in digital sales.
Collectively they experienced a 2.4 %
loss in digital sales, which is partly attributed to higher prices.
The increase
in digital sales for Hachette mirrors the highest earnings report by Simon and Shuster.
«[T] he huge increase
in digital sales shows how rapidly readers and publishers are embracing e-book reading,» Richard Mollet, CEO of The Publisher's Association, explained.
Major publishers are all recording double digit growth in ebooks and Amazon is raking in billions a
quarter in digital sales.
A similar trend could be seen in the US where the Association of American Publishers announced an 18.7 %
fall in digital sales compared with a 7.5 % hike for paperbacks and 4.1 % for hardbacks.
It is logical, then, that Michael Hart's pioneering experiment was called Project Gutenberg and that Amazon, the current
leader in digital sales in the West, started out as an online bookstore.
Where some publishers at one time were getting their feet wet in the world of digital publishing by experimenting with marketing their backlist titles as ebooks, the
turnaround in digital sales has caused many publishers to now focus on the ebooks of their bestselling titles.
And that would suggest that the increasing concentration of sales, which is likely the result of our hobbled ability to present
choices in the digital sales environment, is a problem that publishers will want to address.
These increases are part of an overall growth
trend in digital sales (including e-books, audio downloads and online subscriptions) of 89.1 %, from 77 million pounds to 145 million pounds.
Either Japanese gamers have slowly become more
interested in digital sales or physical shortages are pushing them that way, because Monster Hunter X seems to be on a mission for the top spot on the eShop charts.
The closest thing out there were unofficial sources, like VGChartz, that gathered retail information, but
lacked in digital sales data.
Yes, Sledgehammer Games» maiden stint at the helm produced a series
high in digital sales, but it wasn't enough to cushion the 27 % fall in retail sales from Ghosts over the same period in the States.
And while net sales declined because of a decrease in the number of new blockbuster titles compared to fiscal year 2017, Square Enix saw a strong
performance in digital sales that resulted in an increase of operating income.
While Metal Gear Survive did not show a stellar performance in Japan at retail, it managed to surpass Monster Hunter
World in digital sales.
The Spanish book trade is preparing for unexpectedly fast
growth in digital sales, Liber, the international book fair for the Spanish speaking world has been told.
While some publishers have noticed a leveling out on their digital sales, especially following circumstances like the hype over a particular ebook decreasing and causing a resulting minor
drop in digital sales, others are still reporting record increases in revenue from digital publishing.
Asked to explain the
decline in digital sales, Mr. Huseby said that Barnes & Noble was fighting intense competition from Amazon and Apple and deep discounts on books from other retailers that influenced Barnes & Noble's own pricing.
While studies from groups like the Book Industry Study Group had once shown that teenagers were the readers least likely to adopt digital reading, the rise
in digital sales in young adult fiction shows that more are taking to reading on their devices.
Bloomsbury Children's head Emma Hopkin said: «We've seen a great
increase in our digital sales in both the US and UK, in particular for YA titles, and we realised there was no YA - dedicated digital list, and Bloomsbury can offer local marketing around the globe for these titles.»
On Tuesday, the fast - casual chain announced it was on track to surpass $ 1 billion
in digital sales, or sales made through kiosks, mobile, and web, in 2017.
Target's results showed same store sales growth, top and bottom lines that edged analyst estimates and growth
in digital sales that showed...