Sentences with phrase «shrinking print book sales»

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PricewaterhouseCoopers estimates «consumer eBooks will drive $ 8.2 billion in sales by 2017, surpassing projected print book sales, which it thinks will shrink by more than half during that period.»

In its annual «Entertainment & Media Outlook,» set to be released Wednesday, PwC (PricewaterhouseCoopers) estimates that trade (consumer, not educational or academic) ebooks will drive $ 8.2 billion in sales by 2017 — surpassing projected print book sales, which it thinks will shrink by more than half during that period.

Absent ebooks, total print book sales did shrink about 8 %.

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.