Just to keep the numbers in perspective, let's look at
overall print book sales compared to e-book sales.
Of course,
overall print book sales ($ 4,030.1 M) were still more than 4 times the dollar value of e-book sales.
Not exact matches
Right now, brick - and - mortar stores still have an
overall majority over online retailers, but e-book
sales are growing (although slowly) and online
sales of new
printed books continues to increase.
In 2013 the UK market for self - published
books grew by 79 per cent with 18 million bought by UK readers, despite
print sales falling 10 per cent
overall.
In addition,
sales figures in The Canadian
Book Market do not include ebook sales, nor online sales of print books, so the overall book market may be healthier than reflected.&ra
Book Market do not include ebook
sales, nor online
sales of
print books, so the
overall book market may be healthier than reflected.&ra
book market may be healthier than reflected.»
In addition,
sales figures in The Canadian
Book Market do not include ebook sales, nor online sales of print books, so the overall book market may be healthier than reflected.Although Indigo suffered some big loses, the company is still bullish on their fut
Book Market do not include ebook
sales, nor online
sales of
print books, so the
overall book market may be healthier than reflected.Although Indigo suffered some big loses, the company is still bullish on their fut
book market may be healthier than reflected.Although Indigo suffered some big loses, the company is still bullish on their future.
They are cheering the fact that
print is holding up when
overall book sales are either flat or declining (in part because of high prices) even as other forms of digital content are growing.
Overall,
sales of
print Self - Help
books are fairly consistent throughout the year, with the exception of the holiday jump in December, which carries over into January.
Overall, I think what's happening is that the «mid-list» is moving to ebooks, the megacorporations are moving to blockbusters only (and the corporate vanity titles like lit prize winners), and the non-narrative
print books are moving to online
sales.
Why are nonfiction digital
sales so comparatively miniscule, when
print sales in nonfiction are, and have been for years, the most lucrative slice of the
overall book market pie?
And the increase in e-
book sales was not enough to offset the
overall decline, with combined
book (
print + e-
book)
sales for 2011 ($ 4,986.9 M) falling slightly from 2010 ($ 5,293.3 M).
With
overall ebook
sales for most publishers at a point of stasis for now, the Digital
Book World conference commissioned Jonathan Nowell at Nielsen
Book to provide a closer look at how the rise of ebooks has affected what sells in
print form.
According to global information provider The NPD Group, through the end of July 2017,
print travel
books have experienced 2 percent growth in unit
sales, and an
overall compound annual growth rate of 1 percent from 2014 to 2016 in the U.S..
That being said, I also think that ebooks and conventional
printed books not only co-exist beautifully, but will continue to do so quite amicably — even as ebooks continue to slowly increase as a percentage of
overall sales.
He starts by pointing out that our inability to adequately track ebook
sales (especially self - published ones) is part of the reason that
print might seem to be gaining: «Even if the major trade publishers are selling fewer ebooks,» he writes, «it doesn't follow that the
overall digital
book market must be shrinking.
Looking at the
overall numbers, total
print book, e-
book, and audiobook
sales in January were $ 805.7 M (down 1.9 % from last January's $ 821.5 M).
-LSB-...] Important Publishing Developments Authors Should Know (Jane Friedman) It's commonly said that in the United States,
overall trade
book sales are divided about 70 - 30
print - digital, and that ebook
sales at traditional publishing houses are flat to declining.
Overall spending on children's
books grew 15 % in 2014, mainly driven by a 9 % growth in
print sales.
While the data showed bookshops had lost share of
book purchases in 2013
overall, they did gain share in the
print market — staying ahead of internet retailers for physical
book sales.
So, with
print sales at independent ABA bookstores up a tiny bit, but
book sales at all major US bookstore chains and mass merchandisers down by almost an order of magnitude more, then why does Nielsen Bookscan's «Retail & Club» sector still report that US
print book sales are up 5 %
overall?
While the
overall book market grows a healthy 3 % a year, it «is solely due to Amazon's fast - growing online
print sales,» says Howey.
If ebook
sales continue to increase as a percentage of
overall book sales, and if
print continues to decline as a format, and especially if brick - and - mortar bookstore closers continue or accelerate, it'll become increasingly difficult for publishers to hold on to their best authors.