The importance of the newly derived 625,327 number lies, of course, in the fact that the major online retailers don't
report ebook sales figures.
Not exact matches
In the States, the APA's member - publishers who
report their
figures have seen 20 - percent or better increases in audiobook
sales for two years, 2014 and 2015, making it the kind of sector in publishing that many publishers, weary of the hobbled progress of recent
ebook markets, understandably welcome.
Because the largest retailers trading in the
ebook space don't
report sales figures — most significantly Amazon — the publishing industry is left, as The Bookseller's Philip Jones puts it, trying to analyze its own digital market «by candlelight.»
Because the preponderance of
sales figures are not
reported, we actually do not know how many
ebook titles exist, nor how many authors are engaged in producing them.
In just the month of July, seventeen publishers
reported a total of $ 82.6 million in
ebook sales, according to Publisher's Weekly, which also noted that this
sales figure was 105.3 % higher than in July of 2010.
Publishers weekly is
reporting that
eBook Sales from around 16
reporting companies have said
figures spiked to around 70 million dollars.
In the most recent industry
sales figures reported by the AAP,
ebook revenue went from $ 32.4 million in January 2010 to $ 69.9 million in January 2011.
All the breathlessly
reported official
ebook statistics and analysis are basically just misleading garbage now as a result: it remains to be seen whether the ISBN - based
reporting will continue, or Bowker, AAP, et al will
figure out new methods of tracking and estimating
ebook sales.