First,
print book sales declined in 2010, being replaced by e-book sales.
Monthly e-book sales ($ 49.5 M) haven't quite caught mass market paperback sales ($ 57.1 M) yet, but they're getting ever closer as e-book sales increase dramatically and
print book sales decline from 2009 levels.
Not exact matches
HC CEO Brian Murray said that the continued
decline in e-books isn't a major concern at the moment, noting that in the North American market gains in
print book sales made up for the drop in e-
book sales.
eBook
sales have shown a positive growth during the last few years, while conventional
printed books have shown a steady
decline in
sales for the last eight years in row.
The Bridge by Karen Kingsbury (S&S / Howard
Books; S&S Audio; Thorndike Large
Print) is a Christmas story about a Tennessee bookstore named The Bridge that struggles to survive
declining book sales and the rise of e-
books.
Sales of old - fashioned print books are up for the third year in a row, according to the Association of American Publishers, while ebook sales have been decli
Sales of old - fashioned
print books are up for the third year in a row, according to the Association of American Publishers, while ebook
sales have been decli
sales have been
declining.
The massive drop in
print sales in the US quantified as 22 million fewer
print books sold in recent weeks, a
decline which Betts says is accelerating.
US Publisher upheaval ahead as
print book sales see sharp
decline.
The Association of American Publishers released its US
book sales figures for February 2011 and it looks like 2011 will be the year the trade
book business has to finally confront serious
declines in its core
print business.
Print books saw growth, and for the second consecutive year publisher revenues from eBook
sales declined and downloaded audio grew.
In Brazil,
print book sales are down 3.5 % for the last 12 months, with
declines in the top 2 genres: Fiction and Adult Non-Fiction.
One of the reasons why the
sales of
print books have
declined is because of the rise in the production and
sales of e-
books and e-readers.
What is even more interesting is that the greater proliferation of ebooks has not led to a
decline in
sales of
printed books.
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.
Yesterday the The New York Times had a fascinating piece about how ebook
sales, contra Aggregation Theory, are actually
declining even as publishers and
book stores are thriving on the back of
print: 1
Digital
book sales rose in the United Kingdom by 366 % in 2011 which contributed to a noticeable
decline in
print.
In the intervening years,
sales of
print books declined as the popularity of ebooks took off.
The
sales of
print books averaged a
decline of almost 23 %.
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).
A 169 per cent surge in e-
book revenues since the start of the year contrasted with a 24.8 per cent
decline in
print book sales to $ 442m over the two - month period.
In the U.S., the quick growth of e-
book sales has been something of a lifeline for publishers facing a
declining print book business.
Nielsen
Book reported at TOC Frankfurt that print book sales are declining in key global markets, but consumers are increasingly enticed by the value of e-bo
Book reported at TOC Frankfurt that
print book sales are declining in key global markets, but consumers are increasingly enticed by the value of e-bo
book sales are
declining in key global markets, but consumers are increasingly enticed by the value of e-books.
Part of the reason for
declines in
print book sales was the rise of e-books and e-readers, but this sector is now falling.
Meanwhile,
print book sales so far in 2017 show that the industry is not suffering that same rate of
decline — so B&N is losing share to its competitors.
-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.
But in the past two years a revival has taken place, fuelled by rising
print sales and
declining digital
book sales.
When
books have both digital and
print, digital
sales often
decline if there is no visibility in stores.
One senior executive with a mainstream house foolishly tried to justify higher ebook prices as their way of recovering
declining profits from dwindling
printed book sales.
Another reason why digital
book sales declined last year is because cookery and humour are simply better in
print — and last year's bestseller lists were populated by
books by the fitness guru Joe Wicks, the Ladybird Books for Grown - ups series and Enid Blyton paro
books by the fitness guru Joe Wicks, the Ladybird
Books for Grown - ups series and Enid Blyton paro
Books for Grown - ups series and Enid Blyton parodies.
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.
Some brick - and - mortar retailers are doing well,
sales of
printed books have stopped
declining, and newspapers like the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal have made successful transitions to online content.
Law
book sales have been falling, and the relatively small law e-
book segment is not large enough to overcome the
print sales decline.