Ebook Vs Physical Book Sales

Are to people under the age of 44 while 52 of e book sales are to those over 45 according to nielsen.

Ebook vs physical book sales. Sales figures are regularly analysed for the relative trends. Physical books and ebooks both have their own unique strengths and weaknesses. Buying ebooks instantly chops off the 50 percent surcharge that amazon slaps on my credit card to cover the cost of shipping physical books thousands of miles from the us to taiwan where i live.

Ebooks are often portrayed as being in conflict with physical books the modern versus the traditional function versus experience and more or less openly amazon versus bookstores and established publishers. One s weaknesses are often the other s strengths and vice versa. 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.

1 june 2018 library policy. For some people this is a very important factor. The feel of paper.

In 2015 the publishers association found that digital content sales had fallen from 563m in 2014 to 554m while physical book sales had increased from 2 74bn to 2 76bn. Sixty three percent of physical book sales in the u k. Recent statistics show that e books brought in 771 million in the us market between january and september 2018.

Sales of physical books increased 4 in the uk last year while ebook sales shrank by the same amount. But instead of picking one over the other they should be seen as complementary to each other. It might seem that most everyone reads e books on their tablet these days but surprisingly sales of digital books are down.

7 reasons printed books are better than ebooks. Compare that to 800 million in 2017. According to the new york times e book sales have been falling in 2015 print.