Comments on: New stats: Ebooks still growing, but more slowly http://paidcontent.org/2012/12/03/new-stats-ebooks-still-growing-but-more-slowly/ The economics of digital content Wed, 22 May 2013 20:06:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Kevin Horne http://paidcontent.org/2012/12/03/new-stats-ebooks-still-growing-but-more-slowly/#comment-182780 Thu, 06 Dec 2012 06:06:29 +0000 http://paidcontent.org/?p=221509#comment-182780 Meanwhile, revenues in the “dying” physical formats were up, and no one has a thing to say about it…

]]> By: Steve Hoffenberg http://paidcontent.org/2012/12/03/new-stats-ebooks-still-growing-but-more-slowly/#comment-182076 Wed, 05 Dec 2012 12:43:44 +0000 http://paidcontent.org/?p=221509#comment-182076 Percentage increases are misleading in early stage market numbers precisely because the numbers are fairly low. For any kind of established market, growth of 36.9% is still very strong and would indicate doubling in about two and a half years.

I think more revealing stats would be the total revenue for those publishers, including print and ebook, and the percentage from ebooks.

]]> By: Ian Lamont http://paidcontent.org/2012/12/03/new-stats-ebooks-still-growing-but-more-slowly/#comment-181489 Tue, 04 Dec 2012 14:28:56 +0000 http://paidcontent.org/?p=221509#comment-181489 Several thoughts:

1) Post-Christmas, there will be a surge as people try out their new e-readers with well-known authors and titles
2) Established publishers are losing market share to self-published e-book titles
3) Publishers are being forced to discount as the number of ebook titles explodes
4) As e-readers transition into tablets, people will spend more time consuming other types of content — video, games, Web, etc.

]]> By: Simon Denman http://paidcontent.org/2012/12/03/new-stats-ebooks-still-growing-but-more-slowly/#comment-181364 Tue, 04 Dec 2012 10:50:03 +0000 http://paidcontent.org/?p=221509#comment-181364 Surely this just means the ebook market has now reached relative maturity, becomming an established format within the overall publishing market?

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