Ebooks Vs Printed Books Statistics 2019

Hardcover book sales saw a 7 8 594 million increase in revenue and paperback sales saw a respectable 3 1 553 6 million.

Ebooks vs printed books statistics 2019. Both hardcover and paperback books still rule the market with approximately 3 billion and 2 5 billion in sales in 2019 respectively. 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. The decline in ebooks is good for the traditional print industry.

1 2 while e books are helping the publishing industry. Publishers of books in all formats made almost 26 billion in revenue last year in the u s with print making up 22 6 billion and e books taking 2 04 billion according to the association of. This was 10 million less than in the same quarter of 2018.

Just 7 of americans say they only read books in digital formats and have not read any print books in the past 12 months. Print books remain the most popular format. Recent statistics show that e books brought in 771 million in the us market between january and september 2018.

About a quarter of americans haven t read a book in any format in the past year demographic differences in book reading in 2019 are similar to the patterns seen in past center surveys. Ebooks and audiobooks have been growing in popularity for years despite calls from traditional print book lovers that they are an abomination.