Ebook Reader Sales Statistics

In 2018 34 percent of 18 to 29 year olds said that they had read at least one e book in the last twelve months a figure which decreased with age and stood at just 15 percent among those aged 65.

Ebook reader sales statistics. Global e reader unit sales by year units sold 2015 20 200 000 2014 25 300 000 2013 33 900 000 2012 40 000 000 2011 37 900 000 2010 10 400 000 e reader market share market share amazon kindle 41 barnes. Compare that to 800 million in 2017. Here are some of the major countries and their ebook sales.

The e book reader is normally designed to operate for long hours by consuming minimal power. Pwc estimates that trade ebooks excluding educational publications will reach 8 2 billion in sales by 2017 to surpass printed book sales which are expected to fall from 11 9 billion in 2012 to 7 9 billion in 2017. An introduction to the global e book reader market.

Healthy projections say ebooks are here to stay. I was surprised to find out japan is the 2 country in terms of ebook sales with china 3rd and the united kingdom 4th. Simon schuster ceo carolyn reidy said that ebook.

Recent statistics show that e books brought in 771 million in the us market between january and september 2018. What is an. 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.

E reader trends and statistics for 2019 december 31 2018 by michael kozlowski 7 comments e readers are becoming really popular again and more new devices were released in 2018 than other other year. They currently account for about a quarter of global book sales and are expected to generate nearly 20 billion by the end of 2018. Below is a graph for 2018 again from statista showing ebook sales for most countries with the darker regions buying more and the lighter regions buying less ebooks.

Most e book readers rely on the e ink technology for their displays.