Ebook Sales In 2019
There are scores of online ebook retailers around the world and ebook aggregators abound to help self publishers easily make their book available for sale.
Ebook sales in 2019. March 21 2019 print friendly. True i have seen a number of ebook sales for all the books in the highlander imagine series. Amazon ebook market share 2019.
In the first three months of 2019 digital book sales have fallen by 4 5 and generated 244 million dollars which was 10 million dollars less from the same period last year. And ebook sales were down from last year of course. This was 10 million less than in the same quarter of 2018.
And i would not stop offering an ebook option either because of it. 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. The association of american publishers has announced that in 2019 ebook sales declined 4 9 and generated 1 94 billion.
With 53 of sales happening in non amazon sales channels it s clear that amazon shouldn t be your only bet. In january 2019 publisher revenue for trade consumer books was 543 8 million down 3 2 from january 2018 according to the association of american publishers statshot monthly report. Ebook distribution options in 2019 have expanded greatly the past two years.
Ebook sales continue their downward spiral. State of sales performance 2019 every day new technologies are rolling out buyers are getting savvier and the sales world as we know it is changing. Sales for amazon ebooks through publishdrive jumped by 8 from 39 in 2018 and 47 in 2019.
When ebooks first became well known many speculated that print books would eventually become obsolete. Hard copy book sales for the month of august 2019 made up about 80 of all total book sales. Overall sales are down 30 8 for the five years since 2015.