Ebook Sales In 2020

It s an early sign that it will be the biggest year for ebook sales by some stretch even if isolation restrictions ease throughout the year.

Ebook sales in 2020. Revenue in the ebooks segment is projected to reach us 14 747m in 2020. 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. I was surprised to find out japan is the 2 country in terms of ebook sales with china 3rd and the united kingdom 4th.

Hachette stated that ebooks accounted for 16 8 of total revenue in the first quarter of 2020 down from 17 4 in the first quarter of 2019. While the april year on year growth is closer to 100 as a result. Notably ebooks revenues in the children s and ya category saw a 132 5 jump during the month coming in at 14 6 million.

It should come as no surprise then that kobo month on month ebooks sales data for march 2020 to april 2020 shows even more growth. In the online learning world collins connect. Dec 24 2020 06 15pm est.

An ebook is the digital or electronic version of a book and can be read on various devices such as specific. 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. In 2016 that dropped to 23.

This was 10 million less than in the same quarter of 2018. Hard copy book sales for the month of august 2019 made up about 80 of all total book sales. Us ebook sales were up 39 0 in june 2020 18 august 2020 good e reader on a year to date basis ebooks were up 12 7 coming in at 544 5 million for the first six months of 2020.

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.