Ebook Vs Print Book Sales

As print book sales fall publishers and others offer free ebook deals.

Ebook vs print book sales. If you don t read much a print book will be more economical. Publishers of books in all formats made almost 26 billion in revenue last year in the u s with print making up. This includes paperback hardback and children s books.

According to the wall street journal sales of traditional print books rose by 5 percent in the us last year while sales of ebooks plunged by 17 percent. Such print success is repeated in countries such as italy where print book sales were up by 1 in 2017 and germany where ebook sales only account for 4 6 of the entire book market. 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.

Meanwhile print sales began to soften at. But if you read a lot of books the overall cost is reduced with an ebook reader. In 2016 that dropped to 23.

It will be interesting to see if this. For the first half of 2019 individual unit book sales were down from 2018 when a total of about 675 million print books were sold in the us. At the same time the sales of ebooks have plummeted.

Cheaper than ebook reader. Both hardcover and paperback books still rule the market with approximately 3 billion and 2 5 billion in sales. Photo by jonas jacobsson on unsplash 7 reasons ebooks are better than printed books.

Hard copy book sales for the month of august 2019 made up about 80 of all total book sales. A printed book is much cheaper than the ebook reader. 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.