Ebook Vs Print Book Statistics 2017

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Ebook vs print book statistics 2017. Traditionally published children s ebooks fell 22 in 2017 while young adult ebook sales fell 8. E book sales fell 10 in 2017. Print books remain the most popular format for reading with 65 of adults saying they had read a print book in the year before the survey.

Have you met libby. Do you prefer reading an e book or a physical version. Traditional publishers sold 10 fewer ebook units in 2017 compared with the previous.

It might be a surprise but for most people old school print on paper still wins. For some people this is a very important factor. Had declined slightly to 983 million in 2019 from a year earlier.

Sales of consumer e books plunged 17 in the u k. Pwc estimates that trade ebooks excluding educational publications will reach 8 2 billion in sales by 2017 to surpass printed book sales which are expected to fall from 11 9 billion in 2012. According to the association of american publishers e book sales in the u s.

Sales of physical books and journals went up by 7 over the same period while children s books. This ebook reader is awesome. The feel of paper.

Adults surveyed in 2017 saying that they purchased e books or bought more e books in general due to cheaper prices. Publishers of books in all formats made almost 26 billion. At the digital book world conference in january 2017 nielsen presented 2016 data from more than 30 traditional us publishers showing a fall in ebook sales from 2015 to 2016 and hardback unit.