Ebook Sales Vs Print

The cost of printed books is more expensive than e books.

Ebook sales vs print. Publishers of books in all formats made almost 26 billion in revenue last year in the u s with print making up. If you don t read much a print book will be more economical. The physical books market is in much better health than the ebooks market and we see that continuing.

You can carry them anywhere without the worry of charging. 3 print books from large publishers have a significant amount of overhead including office space utilities benefits and salaries for. Cheaper than ebook reader.

It might seem that most everyone reads e books on their tablet these days but surprisingly sales of digital books are down. Meanwhile print sales began to soften at. Simon schuster ceo carolyn reidy said that ebook sales were up 13 in the quarter and sales are now running as much as 50 over the same time last year.

It will be interesting to see if this. In 2016 that dropped to 23. It might be a surprise but for most people old school print on paper still wins.

Print unit sales dropped 10 within just a week. They ll be walking back a controversial decision to restrict ebook sales in libraries. Recent statistics show that e books brought in 771 million in the us market between january and september 2018.

The impact on physical copies sold has been swift. In other words not only did overall print book sales at 67 percent of the market outpace ebook sales both hardcovers and paperbacks individually outsold ebooks. A printed book is much cheaper than the ebook reader.