Ebook Sales Statistics 2020 Uk

Total physical book sales in the uk jumped 6 in the week to saturday 21 march according to nielsen.

Ebook sales statistics 2020 uk. 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. Some print sales have shifted to outlets like walmart however and online sales have also risen. Revenue in the ebooks segment is projected to reach us 14 747m in 2020.

Compare that to 800 million in 2017. It has also increased the appetite for books across formats and genres with people looking for escapism and to educate and inform themselves while they have more time on their hands. The main impact of covid 19 on the uk books market has been the closure of bookstores pushing sales online further boosting the role of amazon.

Regardless ebooks remained readers preferred choice of format because people simply exchanged their kindle. Of e books published number of self published books in the u s. 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.

2017 by publisher category largest self publishing companies in the u s. Pandemic drives ebook and audiobook sales by uk publishers to all time high this article is more than 1 month old printed book sales plunge in first six months of 2020 on back of shop and school. However ebook readers sales have been gradually decreasing since their peak in 2011.

Hachette stated that ebooks accounted for 16 8 of total revenue in the first quarter of 2020. Figures from consultant firm deloitte predict that uk sales of spoken story telling are set to generate revenue of. Last modified on wed 1 jul 2020 13 04 edt.

Recent statistics show that e books brought in 771 million in the us market between january and september 2018. Sales of audiobooks are set to overtake ebooks in 2020 new research suggests. In 2018 by no.