Ebook Sales Statistics 2020

They currently account for about a quarter of global book sales and are expected to generate nearly 20 billion by the end of 2018.

Ebook sales statistics 2020. Recent statistics show that e books brought in 771 million in the us market between january and september 2018. Sixty three percent of physical book sales in the u k. E book unit sales in the u s.

Reading support user penetration in the ebooks segment will be at 12 7 in 2020. Compare that to 800 million in 2017. The bookseller estimates global ebook sales to be 19 of total book sales by revenue and a whopping 36 by unit sales number of books sold.

Sales of audiobooks are set to overtake ebooks in 2020 new research suggests. 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. Are to people under the age of 44 while 52 of e book sales are to those over 45 according to nielsen.

Of e books published number of self published books in the u s. Update 31 january 2020. The revenue from the global book publishing market is forecast to slightly increase in the coming years growing from around 113 billion u s.

2017 by publisher category largest self publishing companies in the u s. Dollars in 2015 to about 123 billion u s. Figures from consultant firm deloitte predict that uk sales of spoken story telling are set to generate revenue of.

Healthy projections say ebooks are here to stay. 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. This massive figure is somewhat driven by the number of backlist ebooks offered by publishers for free or under 1 00.