Ebooks Vs Printed Books Statistics 2017
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Ebooks vs printed books statistics 2017. Traditional publishers sold 10 fewer ebook units in 2017 compared with the previous. This ebook reader is awesome. 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.
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 to. This is due to the demand for more resources as the books are being printed unlike in ebooks when the price of the book is cheaper since it does not include the production cost ebooks vs printed 2012. Adults surveyed in 2017 saying that they purchased e books or bought more e books in general due to cheaper prices.
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. In the last several years e books have become a mainstay and a powerful trend in the publishing industry. Price is a clear factor affecting e book consumption with 52 percent of u s.
Recent statistics show that e books brought in 771 million in the us market between january and september 2018. 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. Unit sales of traditionally published e books fell 10 in 2017 compared to 2016 according to figures released by pubtrack digital part of the npd book group.
The service which tracks sales from. Compare that to 800 million in 2017.