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Trade Ebook Sales Grew Over 1,000 Percent New Statistics Model for Book Industry Shows
Trade Ebook Sales Grew Over 1,000 Percent.
As reported by Digital Book World, adult
trade ebook sales were up 20.7 % in Nov. 2012 compared to Nov. 2011.
Trade eBook sales were $ 18,500,000 for October, a 254.3 % increase over October 2008 ($ 5,200,000).
Not exact matches
The latest US book industry
sales figures from the Association of American Publishers show
ebooks are now tracking at 9 % of domestic
trade book revenue for the 8 - month period January to August 2010.
Ebook sales were US$ 293M for the eight months compared to total
trade book
sales of US$ 2.91 B.The data is based on reported
sales from participating APA members.
The latest US book industry
sales figures from the Association of American Publishers show
ebooks are now tracking at 9 % of domestic
trade book revenue for the 8 - month period January... Read more >
This is significant news, if not the «tipping point» that Amazon claims (as of May, according to the AAP,
ebook sales are 8.48 % of
trade sales; adult hardcovers are 43.2 %).
But now, according to research published by The American Association of Publishers (http://www.publishers.org/main/IndustryStats/documents/S12007Final.pdf),
ebooks have risen again like a Phoenix from the ashes, turning in a compound annual
sales growth rate of 55 % between 2002 and 2007, versus an anemic overall
trade book growth rate of only 2.5 %.
While traditional publishers (actually, the top end publishers) are fighting over business and legal issues, like any big business, you adapt and work with what works —
eBooks still represent a minority in
sales, but it is rapidly catching up to print, and by all accounts, has already passed hardcover (which has been in decline in a slow death since the advent of paperbacks and
trade paperbacks in the 40s and 50s).
According to Tracy, most of the paperback
sales are in
trade paperback, rather than the smaller mass - market or pocket edition — those have mostly been replaced by the
ebook.
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.
The titillating trilogy sold more than 30 million copies between March and June, with
sales evenly divided between the
trade paperback and
ebook editions.
Mike DiPiano, managing general partner of NewSpring, who now joins Open Road's board of directors, said, «There is huge disruption in the publishing industry as business models are rapidly evolving and
ebooks are becoming a greater share of overall
trade book
sales.
According to the survey,
ebooks sales in the adult
trade fiction category increased in 2013 over 2012, up 3.8 % to a yearly total of $ 1.3... [Read more...]
According to the survey,
ebooks sales in the adult
trade fiction category increased in 2013 over 2012, up 3.8 % to a yearly total of $ 1.3 billion.
Hardcover
sales in adult
trade fiction and non-fiction combined increased to a total of $ 1.5 billion in 2013;
ebooks in fiction - only sold almost as much as hardcover for both fiction and non-fiction for adults — despite the typically lower price point of
ebooks compared to hardcover and paperback — a fact that speaks to the need to revamp the strategy by which publishers perceive digital - first and
ebook - only.
In July, the Association of American Publishers reported that for the first five months of 2010,
eBooks accounted for 8.5 percent of a
trade book
sales, up from about 3 percent for all of 2009.
The International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) used to collect quarterly U.S.
trade retail
ebook sales in conjunction with the Association of American Publishers (AAP).
The trend of more moderate growth for
ebooks in the U.S. in 2012 continued in Sept. as
sales of adult
trade ebooks were up 30.7 %, much less than the triple - digit
sales growth seen in
ebooks in previous years.
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.»
Even as publishers in the United States levy agency - pricing on their
ebooks at much higher rates than the Amazonian $ 9.99 preference, many observers fear, as Wischenbart cites, that this is driving readers away from
trade ebooks and contributing to the slowing of digital growth in
sales.
So, it's fairer to say that
trade published
ebook sales are falling but indie
ebook sales are not.
With almost 400,000 books self - published in the US last year, Coker posited that indie authors represented 15 % of the
ebook market for 2013, and that a «fairly conservative» estimate would give them more than a third (35 %) of the overall
trade book market in seven years, and 50 % of
ebook sales by the year 2020.
In 2008, a little more than $ 1 out of every $ 100 in total publishing
trade revenue went to
ebook sales.
The bottom line is that Amazon's
eBook market is not yet big enough to cover the losses the top selling indie / self - pubbed authors lose out on by not being widely distributed in physical book stores in the U.S. Of course, this disadvantage is mitigated over time because once the
trade publishers stop pushing their new releases, these books»
sales typically decline, but indie / self - pubbed authors can keep their market pushes going indefinitely, and they can publish new books more frequently than once a year.
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.
The
ebook sales in the first six months of 2014 were 29 % of their
trade revenues.
Online print and audiobook
sales (at Amazon and elsewhere) make up another 14 % — 17 % of
trade publishing's unit
sales, while the remaining 45 % — 52 % are
ebooks.
AAP, the US publishers»
trade body, just reported that
ebook sales for the 11 months to November 2017 were down by 5.5 per cent.
AAP: Publisher
eBook Sales Fell almost 5 % in 2017 9 May 2018 (The Digital Reader) Trade revenues were essentially flat (a 1.3 % increase), while ebook revenues fell 4
eBook Sales Fell almost 5 % in 2017 9 May 2018 (The Digital Reader)
Trade revenues were essentially flat (a 1.3 % increase), while
ebook revenues fell 4
ebook revenues fell 4.7 %.
Ebooks now account for 27 % of all adult
trade sales.
We don't know if the reason
trade paper
sales have gone down (which Nowell reports) because most people don't like the format or because the number of retail outlets carrying
trade paper books has gone down (witness the loss of many chain bookstore locations, where most
trade papers were sold) or because given a choice between
trade paper and
ebook, the average reader will choose
ebook.
Looking at the
sales figures of hardcovers,
ebooks, and
trade paper does not give us that answer, because that data doesn't address the initial question.
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.
The information is mixed; various
Trade publishing houses have mentioned that one of the main facets on
eBook sales volume is because of the interest in buying more «backlist» titles.
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., the 204 - year - old publishing house that has known a few great names in its day (think Edgar Allan Poe, for example), saw a threefold rise in its
ebook sales in the first three quarters of this year, which still only brought the percentage of their professional and
trade sales in digital format up to eleven percent.
Sales nearly doubled from 2010 to 2011, and
ebooks now account for over 30 % of all
Trade - Fiction!
Publisher's Weekly posted an article on its blog that allowed various publishing industry professionals from a variety of outlets to expand on the generally accepted prediction that
ebooks will make up 50 % of total
trade book
sales within five years.
The release comes as data from Aptara shows «all but 6 % of
trade publishers are currently developing e-books «and that «1 out of 5
eBook publishers generates more than 10 % of their
sales from
eBooks `.
Many expect 50 % of
trade sales to be
ebooks by 2015, if not sooner.
While
trade paperbacks still lead the industry in
sales, it does seem inevitable that at some point,
eBooks will make up the vast majority of book
sales while physical books will fill a niche role.
The first thing that we need to measure is the percentage of the book market
sales of
eBooks over the percentage of the overall
traded books represented by our indie authors.
With the combination of tablets and digital content sold, U.S.
trade publishers see 7.2 % increase of their print and
eBook export
sales of 2011.
Sales of Konrath's $ 2.99
ebook will deliver him about $ 2.10 a copy (Konrath says $ 2.04; not sure where the other six cents is going...), as much or more as he would make on a $ 14.95 paperback from a
trade publisher, and significantly more than he'd make on a $ 9.99
ebook distributed under «Agency» terms and current major publisher royalty conventions.
But it comes from Technavio Research and seems to run counter to the news being reported by much of the
trade press that
eBook sales are actually declining.
Ebook sales rise, unit consumption surprises —
Ebooks sales will approach 20 % of trade book revenues on a monthly basis by the end of 2011 in the US, yet the bigger surprise is that ebooks will account for one third or more of unit consum
Ebooks sales will approach 20 % of
trade book revenues on a monthly basis by the end of 2011 in the US, yet the bigger surprise is that
ebooks will account for one third or more of unit consum
ebooks will account for one third or more of unit consumption.
Since then, however, Nielsen will report Thursday, the
trade has seen «a slow erosion in both
ebook and print unit
sales.»
In it, we went over some of the reactions to the American Association of Publishers» (AAP) recent numbers (based on the input of some 1,200 publishers), indicating that, as Michael Cader wrote at Publishers Lunch, «
ebook sales by established
trade publishers are in decline.»
They do note that while
trade publishers think
ebooks in 2009 will be no more than 3 % of total
sales, for Springer it will be a significant percentage.