Not exact matches
Any kind of refute that
ebooks without ISBNs aren't a significant portion of the
market and that's why it looks like
ebook sales are
shrinking?
In fact, over the last few years, the mass
market form of book continues to
shrink in sales almost in direct relation to the growth in
ebooks sales.
Perhaps not for the big publishers, whose
market share of
ebooks is indeed
shrinking.
Authors Earnings has now proclaimed that the indie
eBook market share has
shrunk significantly.
The first thing you see is a World War III headline at the top: «AAP Reports Own
Shrinking Market Share, Media Mistakes It for Flat US
Ebook Market.»
Authors Earnings has now proclaimed that the indie
eBook market share has
shrunk... [Read more...]
Traditional publishers and publishing industry pundits are claiming that the broader US
ebook market has now flattened, or is even
shrinking...
The substitution is so automatic, that most of the journalists breathlessly repeating stories about a «
shrinking US
ebook market» are completely oblivious to the difference.»
There's no denying print is still a big
market, but a
shrinking one, while
eBook is growing.
Traditional
market statistics from Nielsen, Bowker, and the AAP are completely blind to this rapidly growing non-traditionally published segment of the US
market, which has led to a flurry of mistaken media coverage about «the US
ebook market» flattening or
shrinking.
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.
The
ebook market didn't actually take over the world the way we thought it would, plateauing at about 30 % of the total sales
market (and then either growing or
shrinking, depending on who you ask; in a polarized world, even statistics about book sales come with different interpretations).
The higher margin on
ebooks is offsetting the lower revenue publishers are making from a
shrinking print
market.