The Germans claim that together they represent approximately 40 % of
the total ebook market in Germany, or «eye level» with Amazon and that the market is «wide open.»
Using that and an accurate measure of Amazon's total market share (difficult, I know), you could extrapolate
the total eBook market and thus a true digital Bestseller List.
I» m legitimately curious how you arrive at the conclusion that the 1,200 publishers reporting to AAP accounts for only 46 % of
total ebook market share.
The biggest - selling ebook format, before Kindle, put content on the Palm Pilot and
the total ebook market was so far beneath a rounding error that any investment by a publisher in digitization was being made on faith, not on commercial evidence.
It is thought that the companies that actually use the stock Adobe version of DRM make up less than 5 % of
the total eBook market.
The gap is quickly closing and many industry experts agree
the total eBook market will account for $ 9.7... [Read more...]
Not exact matches
According to Alexander Shipetin, head of department of children's books and magazines of AST publishing house and the former vice-president of the Russian Book Union, currently,
ebooks are estimated at no more than 0.5 % of the
total volume of the Russian
market.
At the same time they also note the growing popularity of
ebooks, which according to some calculations may account for some 30 % of the
total domestic book
market by 2020 - 2022.
Meanwhile over in Asia, Japan led the
eBook markets with 15 % of the country's
total consumer book revenues; China and India, meanwhile, lagged far behind at 3 %.
Authors are catching on to these digital buying trends and the benefits
eBooks bring, such as greater speed to
market, as
total eBook volume at Lulu has increased 22 % in 2011.
The other different pure
ebook reader manufacturers include Pandigital which got 16.1 % of
market share, Barnes and Noble got 15.4 % of the
total share followed by other manufacturer Sony, Hanvon and others.
The commercial
eBooks are from Digital Pulp Publishing, presenting a wide and eclectic array bringing independent access to the broad open
market through the efforts of many publishers; and also great numbers of additional books, perhaps
totalling ~ 100,000 by July 4, from
eBooks About Everything.
Another interesting fact is that Amazon shipped around 1.14 Millions Kindles devices in the summer and currently its covers 41.5 % of the
total market share of pure
ebook readers whereas Apple iPad has got 87.4 % of the
total tablet
market share before the Samsung Galaxy Tab was released.
In Asia, Japan led the
eBook markets with 15 % of the country's
total consumer book revenues; China and India, meanwhile, lagged far behind at 3 %.
UK
market will follow the US
market trend with
ebook share reaching 35 % of 2017
total market.
The Turkish
eBook market is fairly paltry with
total revenue equating to only 0.7 % of the entire publishing sector.
Bloomsbury Publishing is reporting that half of their
total sales now stem from
eBook sales in some
markets.
Ebooks market share seems to be stabilizing at around one third of
total books sold in the U.S. according to the latest reports.
A popular approach for independent authors is to use Amazon KDP without assistance or distributors in the way, and then employ an
ebook distributor for the rest of the
ebook market to reduce administration time, since sales outside of Amazon are usually less than 10 to 15 percent of
total ebook sales.
At this level, besides
total book design, including print and
ebook formatting, you'll also get access to two of my premium online courses on book
marketing and building an author platform, my step - by - step book launch checklist, as well as one month of publishing support... along with some book promotion graphics to make your book look awesome.
The revenue from
ebooks market share of the
total book
market has increased almost exponentially during the first three years since 2010, but since 2014 it's showing tendencies of saturation.
Gail Rebuck, chair of Penguin Random House, stated the same year in the Creative UK report that our creative industries are at the centre of a digital transformation of our economy; predicting that
ebooks would become a
total of 35 % of the
market share in two years.
Right now
ebooks only represent 3 - 5 % of the
total trade book
market, but big publishers are terrified that
ebooks are the wave of the future, destined to supplant paper as surely as DVD supplanted VHS.
In a recent interview the CEO said «In the US and UK, the
ebook market is about 20 % of the
total book... [Read more...]
Overall the
ebook market growth is much slower than anticipated, we still have a single digit
market share of
ebooks as a share of the
total market.
However,
ebooks still represent just 1 % of the
total Russian book
market, which is on par with the digital publishing net worth in Vietnam.
While publishing giants Penguin recently confirmed that
ebooks only account for % 1 of their
total market profit.
Japan's Research Laboratory of the Publishing Science revealed that the
eBook market increased by 13.2 percent in 2016,
totaling 25.8 billion yen in sales.
According to the Association of American Publishers and the Book Industry Study Group, by 2010,
ebooks represented 6.2 % of the
total unit
market share with nearly 112 million units sold, compared to only nine million units sold in 2008.
«Right now putting an
ebook into Amazon and having them sell it on autopilot can get a lot more of the
total market than will be the case over time as a more fully articulated and global
ebook infrastructure builds out.»
Some recent media reports about current
eBook sales have quoted industry statistics that only look at a portion of the
total book
market, painting a bleak, though incomplete picture
Which means it's impossible that
ebooks are only 14 - 15 % of the
market total based on the above data.
By creating a writing community, with a
total support network behind the scenes, we will actively promote and
market your
eBooks.
Estimates vary for the
market value of Britain's self - published
ebooks, but in 2015 Neilsen put the annual
total of self - published UK book sales (both in print and online) at # 58 million.
Firstly if we are to take Evan's Zero Sum Game, then: a) The price of the
eBook can be reduced to the Reader by the remaining four removed costs — leaving
total earnings the same for all of the contributors bringing the
eBook to the
market — or..
Of cours e, he also thinks the
ebook market is 20 % of the
total.
In the US and UK, the
ebook market is about 20 % of the
total book
market, everywhere else it is 5 % -7 % because in these places the prices never went down to such a level that the
ebook market would get significant traction.»
«What an author gets per copy is not adequate to conclude that they make more money in
total... I don't see any correlation in the different direction of
market share based on price increases... Amazon's bestseller list is comprised mostly by low priced or almost free titles, so it is not fair to conclude that Indy authors make more money by using this sample... more and more of the Big5 publishers have been re-designing their websites to sell
ebooks and printed books it could be a reason for the effect into the decreased
market share that they have on Amazon.»
«The
ebook market, despite having grown less than expected, is now worth more than 5 percent of the
total, while the digital
market as a whole is 13 percent, while in 2011 it was 5 percent.»
What we see from the graphs above is that all the reporting lately on the plateauing or decline in
ebook adoption is certainly true for major publishers, whose numbers are being used as if they represent the broader
market, but their daily unit sales are less than a third of the
total market.
In the US and UK, the
ebook market is about 20 percent of the
total book
market, everywhere else it is 5 percent to 7 percent because in these places the prices never went down to such a level that the
ebook market would get significant traction.
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).
Ebooks market share seems to be stabilizing at around one - third of
total books sold in the U.S. according to the latest reports.
A little over two years ago, shortly after
Total Boox entered the library
market, NSR published a story written by
Total Boox CEO and Founder, Yoav Lorch, on the absurdity of
ebooks disappearing from devices.
He believes Amazon is totally reliant on text - based titles that make up only a fraction of the
total book publishing
market, and calls Apple's iBooks Author — free software that's supposed to let anyone create interactive
ebooks for the iBookstore — a flop.