The American Association of Publishers released the year end stats report for the US book market yesterday, and it looks like the US ebook market is not growing nearly as fast as it did in past years.
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AAP: eBook Sales Up 41% in 2012 as Growth Slows Down
April 11th, 2013 by Nate Hoffelder · AAP, ebook sales → 7 Comments
New Figures Show US eBook Market Up 44% in 2012
March 20th, 2013 by Nate Hoffelder · ebook sales → 3 Comments
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The AAP has released new figures today for US ebook market in November 2012, and the news is generally good.
The US book market as a whole grew by 8% in the first 11 months of 2012, from $6.1 billion to $6.6 billion. Most market segments, including audiobooks and ebooks, were up as well (with the exception of paperbacks).
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IDC Predicts Global Tablet Shipments to Hit 190 Million Units in 2013 as eReader Market Shrinks
March 12th, 2013 by Nate Hoffelder · statistics → 7 Comments
The market research firm IDC has just gotten their magic 8 ball back from the pawn shop yesterday (the money was used to buy lottery tickets that didn’t win) and they have some new predictions to share today.
According to IDC’s best guesses, in 2013 the global tablet market is expected to top 190.9 million tablets. That’s up from IDC’s last guess, which placed tablet shipments at 172.4 million in 2013. IDC also guesses that Android tablets will make up a larger share of the market in 2013 than they did in 2012:
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AAP Reports US eBook Sales Up 46% in 2012, Now Well Over a Fifth of US Book Market
February 25th, 2013 by Nate Hoffelder · AAP, ebook sales → 9 Comments
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The Association of American Publishers has released a new monthly revenues report for October 2012, and if these statistics are any indication someone other than B&N has been selling a lot of ebooks.
The general book market was up 8.7% from $5.4 billion to $5.9 billion in the first 10 months of 2012, with only a few market segments reporting a decline (adult mass market paperbacks, adult & religious hardcovers and YA paperback). Children’s books in particular saw decent growth (18.7% overall), but ebooks continue to be the bright spot in the monthly report.
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US eBook Sales Were Up in the First Half of 2012
October 15th, 2012 by Nate Hoffelder · ebook sales → 3 Comments
The American Association of Publishers has taken a moment away from their work in denouncing the Georgia State decision and spreading FUD about the onging Kirtsaeng v. Wiley case to bring us some news today about the US book market.
Much to everyone’s surprise, Amazon has not succeeded in killing off the publishing industry – not in the first half of 2012, at least. Sales are up in a number of categories.
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eBooks Now Make up 16% of the Canadian Book Market
October 10th, 2012 by Nate Hoffelder · ebook sales → 2 Comments
eBooks are growing in popularity everywhere, so it comes as no surprise that BookNet Canada announced today that according to their estimates and a recent survey, digital content now makes up 16% of the Canadian book market. They’ve just released a new report which delves into the behavior of the Canadian book buyer, and it has turned up some startling details like 14% of book buyers have gone digital only.
The report also shows that a full 19% of Canadians buy at least some ebook content, and the 7″ of readers who still buy paper and ebooks tended to buy the most, with an average of 4.5 titles a month. that is a noticeable difference from population as a whole. The report shows that a third of Canadians are regular book buyers who purchase 2.8 titles each month.
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eReader, eBook Sales are up in Germany
October 4th, 2012 by Nate Hoffelder · ebook sales, hardware news → 1 Comment
The Frankfurt Book Fair is coming up next week and it looks like there’s going to good news to share about the German ereader market.
BITKOM, a German IT trade group, has just released their estimates for ereader sales in Germany. They’re expecting to see over 800,000 units sold in 2012, more than triple (334%) the estimated sales in 2011. The sales value is believed to be more than last year (obviously), with an increase of 163% to 78 million euros.
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Amazon Trumpets Amazon Publishing Half-Million-Selling Titles
September 15th, 2012 by Chris Meadows · Amazon, publishing news, statistics → 1 Comment
Ever notice how Amazon only shares sales figures when they make it look good, and doesn’t share any more than it has to? Laura Hazard Owen on PaidContent has gotten ahold of a letter from Amazon Publishing’s VP Jeff Belle to literary agents proudly discussing how awesome Amazon Publishing is, mentioning a few books that have sold a half million copies as of this month, as well as a couple of titles that have sold a few hundred thousand units. (Amazon Publishing is the professional publishing arm of Amazon, which operates like a traditional publisher and puts its own fully edited books out—not self-published.) (Found via TeleRead.)
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Millenials Are Buying More Books
August 23rd, 2012 by Nate Hoffelder · statistics → 4 Comments
As a member of the Illiterati, I must say that I’m dismayed by this next bit of news.
You can forget the stereotype of the IMing, Facebook, callow youth of today with a short attention span. A recent market survey report shows that millennials (Americans born between 1979 and 1989) are buying far more books than you might expect.
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Amazon Political Book Sales Heat Map Means Absolutely Nothing
August 22nd, 2012 by Chris Meadows · Amazon, bookstore, statistics, Stupid Nonsense → 3 Comments
You can tell we’re getting close to the Presidential election by just how silly attempts to politicize things get. Case in point: Amazon’s new “heat map” of how well “red” and “blue” books are selling in different states. Amazon basically calls any given book “red” or “blue” based on marketing materials, reader votes, and so forth, and then tracks which books have been selling better in which states over the last 30 days. The result is a largely-pink map of the USA which seems to suggest that nearly everyone’s reading Republican, regardless of what the election is going to look like.
Now just watch all the pundits try to take this map and make something out of it. For example, Wired’s Roberto Baldwin has this to say:
Still, there’s no getting around the fact that even reliably blue states like California come out in shades of red in the Amazon map. According to publishing-industry analyst Michael Norris, of Simba Information, that might be due to the right’s ability to connect with its readers. “I can tell you that there are conservative imprints and conservative publishers that are just brilliant at figuring out what kind of books their audience wants to read,” Norris told Wired. “There just aren’t aggressively left-leaning imprints like that.”
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