Ebooks made up 20% of the U.S. consumer book industry in 2012, up from 15% in 2011
The U.S. consumer book publishing industry had a strong 2012, fueled in part by the growth of ebooks. Read more »
Ebooks made up 23 percent of US publisher sales in 2012, says the AAP
Ebooks accounted for nearly a quarter of the U.S. trade book business in 2012, according to statistics released Thursday by the Association of American Publishers. The ebook industry appears to be maturing, however, and triple-digit growth is likely a thing of the past. Read more »
Authors and publishers objects to Amazon’s “.book” and “.read” names; future process unclear
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A flood of new website addresses with endings like “.book” and “.movie” are set to arrive in coming months. Companies like Amazon and Google are set to control the names but the terms under which they will do so are still undefined. Read more »
Ebook sales way up in 2011; overall trade book sales roughly flat
Print books still dominate, but a new report reveals that in 2011, ebooks made up 15 percent of all trade book sales. In addition, digital is now the most popular format for adult fiction. Despite the massive growth of digital, though, bricks-and-mortar stores are still the largest sales channel for publishers. Read more »
Why are kids’ e-book sales surging? Partly because adults are reading them
New stats from the Association of American Publishers show that kids’ and young adult e-book sales grew by triple digits in February, while adult e-book sales appeared to flatten. But that’s partly because so many adults are reading YA e-books like the “Hunger Games” trilogy. Read more »
E-Book Sales For Kids And Teens Surge
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New monthly stats from the Association of American Publishers show strong growth for both print and e-books in January 2012. Read more »
Only Content Industries Can Create Content People Want, Says MPAA's Attaway
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“Our industries do something that no one else can do,” the Motion Picture Association of America’s Fritz Attaway said at the Association of… Read more »
New Stats: 2011 Was Good For E-Books, Not So Good For Print
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The Association of American Publishers closes out calendar year 2011 today with a round of new stats on print and digital books. Publishers’… Read more »
Updated: Book Publishers Force Down Piracy Sites
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Update: Andi Sporkin of the Association of American Publishers contacted me shortly after this story was published. She says the publishers… Read more »
What Apple Is Wading Into: A Snapshot Of The K-12 Textbook Business
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The battle for the college digital textbook market — including startups like Inkling and Kno — gets a fair amount of attention. But the K-… Read more »
New Stats: Book Publishing Is Growing; E-Book Revs and Sales Up Over 1000%
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One positive story in a week of terrible economic news: BookStats, a new annual statistical survey of raw sales revenue and unit data provid… Read more »
