According to a Publishers Weekly summary of an Association of American Publishers (AAP) study,
while overall book sales were down 2 % in 2012, adult book sales increased by 5.6 % partly due to a 33 % rise in adult ebook purchases.
Not exact matches
While Amazon is a very large part of
overall book sales, it is not the whole marketplace and we recommend not wagering your
book's future by ignoring every other retail option.
(According to the Association of American Publishers [AAP], for the month of October 2008,
overall trade
book sales, when compared to October 2007, suffered a 20 percent drop,
while e-
book sales grew 73 percent during that same period.)
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.
Revenue at the division, which generates about 15 % of
overall sales, saw a 55 % revenue drop during the holidays,
while the core retail
book - selling business grew with comparable
sales up 1.7 %.
While many of the test titles continued to have steady
sales over the test period, the company saw downward trends in their
overall book sales over the same period.
While the data showed bookshops had lost share of
book purchases in 2013
overall, they did gain share in the print market — staying ahead of internet retailers for physical
book sales.
While the
overall book market grows a healthy 3 % a year, it «is solely due to Amazon's fast - growing online print
sales,» says Howey.