Ebook Vs Book Sales

But if you read a lot of books the overall cost is reduced with an ebook reader.

Ebook vs book sales. A printed book is much cheaper than the ebook reader. Cheaper than ebook reader. By amy kraft december 14 2015 6 00 am cbs news while browsing the bookstore to buy a gift for that special someone or.

Recent statistics show that e books brought in 771 million in the us market between january and september 2018. Both hardcover and paperback books still rule the market with approximately 3 billion and 2 5 billion in sales in 2019 respectively. Ebooks aren t priced as low as amazon hoped they would be.

The science behind the best way to read. Compare that to 800 million in 2017. 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.

Paper books vs ebooks statistics say people are becoming more receptive of ebooks. User penetration is currently 10 5 and it is expected to hit 11 8 by 2022. Things only got worse for amazon s ebook hopes after that.

While e books are helping the publishing industry they can. 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. Since the numbers have continued to drop year after year we do not think ebook sales have yet stabilized at 20.

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. If you don t read much a print book will be more economical. Reading on an ebook reader is great.