Ebook Sales Over Time

Amounted to just under 771 million u s.

Ebook sales over time. Over 90 of audiobooks are downloaded from the internet. It is the second year in a row that ebook sales have fallen and only the second time that annual ebook sales have done so since industry bodies began monitoring sales a decade ago. Amazon book sales statistics.

Between january and september of 2018 revenue from e book sales in the u s. That s an average of 59 768 sales per book. Well not that i could find anyway.

You would think i would be considered a big selling name or something but i am not a big deal in my genre. Dollars down from over 800 million in the same period of 2017. Ebook readers sales have been gradually decreasing since their peak in 2011.

Project gutenberg is still alive and kicking with over 57 000 ebooks in its library. Online retailer may be on target for sales of 500 000 kindle e readers over christmas katie allen mon 28 dec 2009 14 29 est first published on mon 28 dec 2009 14 29 est. Publishers of books in all formats made almost 26 billion.

Over time the value of a free ebook against a real sale dropped to 50 and then later to 10. 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. Creating events that people love has now been available for over five years in both paperback and ebook versions and is still selling well i thought it might be of interest to share how the proportion of paperback versus ebook sales has changed over time.

There were over 44 500 audiobooks produced in 2018 an increase of over 5 from the year before. Unfortunately amazon does not give precise weighting percentages now on their help pages. It might be a surprise but for most people old school print on paper still wins.