Unlike its U.S. online counterpart, which now sells more e-books than print, the German Kindle store sells only one e-book for every 100 print books, making up only.5 percent of
total book sales last year.
According to the figures I saw, eBook sales were 1.3 % of
total book sales last year.
Not exact matches
Last year, eBooks accounted for $ 263 million of
total trade
book sales, which represents a 193 % increase from 2009 according to the
Last year, eBooks accounted for $ 263 million of
total trade
book sales, which represents a 193 % increase from 2009 according to the Association of American Publishers.
Last week Hachette announced that e-Books accounted for 24 % of
total book sales in the first nine months of 2015, down from 28 % in the January - September period of 2014.
The combined $ 1.31 billion
total of digital
sales of manga from both compiled
book volumes and magazines saw a 27.5 % increase from
last year.
The combined $ 2.60 billion
total of print
sales of manga from both compiled
book volumes and magazines saw a 9.3 % decrease from
last year.
Last year, according to data published by the Publishers Association,
sales of physical
books fell 5 % to # 2.7 billion, while e-book
sales rose 11 % to just # 563 million with digital revenues growing to 35 % of the overall
total.
Last year digital revenue was only 5 % of
total book sales, which is solid growth considering in 2014 e-books were a mere 0.7 %.
By
last year Coelho's
total print
sales worldwide surpassed 100 million
books.
From an article for paidContent.org, the numbers in the professional & trade
books division were $ 9 million in
sales for the second quarter, which is eight percent of the division's
total revenue and more than double the ebook
sales from the same quarter
last year.
However, despite the rise in
total sales, by genre the numbers were higher than
last year for both business and technology
books, but had a noticeable drop in
sales for cookbooks and travel
books in digital format.
During a press conference
last Wednesday to celebrate the release of their latest Kindle reader (more on that in a bit), Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos made a startling announcement: for
books available in Kindle format, more than 35 % of their
total sales were for the Kindle editions.
According to Britain's Publisher's Association,
total book sales rose 4 %
last fiscal year, and while print still makes up the majority of
sales, its small 1 %
sales slip was more than made up for by a 66 % gain in the digital realm.
In addition, while romance
books are clearly the most popular genre today in terms of
total sales, more people have read a crime / thriller
book over the
last year than any other genre.
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).
In
total, e-books accounted for 18.8 % of all trade
book + e-
book sales, down from nearly 30 % in February, but still a healthy percentage that is more than double
last year's average of 8.2 %.