Ebook Percentage Of Book Sales

This was 10 million less than in the same quarter of 2018.

Ebook percentage of book sales. Here are some of the major countries and their ebook sales. Sixty three percent of physical book sales in the u k. Hard copy book sales for the month of august 2019 made up about 80 of all total book sales.

While millennials are sometimes blamed for killing industries it s actually younger people who appear to be popularizing print. Ebooks account for 34 of all book sales and amazon co uk takes over 87 9 of the sales. I was surprised to find out japan is the 2 country in terms of ebook sales with china 3rd and the united kingdom 4th.

For early 2019 e book sales continued to decline going down nearly 5 in revenue having brought in only 244 million in sales in the first three months of the year. There is a 20 vat applied to ebooks in the uk which is not applied to print. Last year people spent a whopping 405 million usd on ebooks 82 8 of it on amazon.

E book sales have slipped by 3 9 percent so far this year according to data from the association of american publishers while hardback and paperback book sales grew by 6 2 percent and 2 2. Not only are self published romance novels dominating smashwords sales but they are also still increasing in percentage terms. The global e book market henceforth referred to as the market studied was valued at usd 18 13 billion in 2019 and it is expected to reach usd 23 12 billion by 2025 registering a cagr of 4 9 during the forecast period 2020 2025.

Ebooks make up 18 of total book sales in august 2019 the american association of publishers which represents mostly traditional book publishers reported that among their members ebook sales accounted for 14 3 of sales revenue. If the total ebooks sales for april 2017 through september 2018 were worth 4 021 116 522 19 as data guy clearly tells us but the total ebooks sales for april 2017 through december 2017 were worth 1 339 744 763 23 as data guy clearly tells us then the ebook sales for january september 2019 must by deducting the second value from the first be worth 2 681 371 758 96.