Book
publishing is booming with more books published than ever before, according to Bowker Books in Print.
The
number of books published in 2017 is not completely known, in part, because
those using, Amazon’s KDP platform don’t use ISBNs, which are issued by Bowker,
and Amazon doesn’t release its data.
However, based on ISBNs, over 1.35 million books were published last
year.
For the first time, self-published books crossed the one-million threshold, reflecting,a 28% increase from 2016.
For the first time, self-published books crossed the one-million threshold, reflecting,a 28% increase from 2016.
This
means over 3,500 new books are released every single day of the year – about
one-fourth come from traditional publishers and about 10% are for e-only books.
Create
Space is essentially the biggest publisher in the world if you look at its
number of titles released. 752,000
self-published books came from the POD publisher owned by Amazon, representing
some 55% of all books published.
Smashwords,
Lulu, and Author House are the other self-publishing leaders but each are just
a fraction of the market dominated by Create Space.
“2017
was a landmark year for self-publishers," says a report issued by Bowker. “The clear message communicated by the 2017
data is that self-publishing is still evolving, still growing at a rapid pace,
and shows no signs of slowing down. The
largest increase was in print books, showing an increase of 38%.”
Other
highlights from the report show:
*Since
2012, the number of self-published titles increased by 156%.
*13%
of all new self-published titles in 2017 were ebooks.
*Small
publishers, defined by Bowker as those publishers who have produced 10 or fewer
ISBNs, experienced modest growth of 4% to bring their total output to 56,396
for the year.
When
I broke into book publishing in 1989, I recall the number of new books released
to the public that year was around 45,000.
It’s hard to believe that we release that many in America in just a
dozen days. Think about that.
Over Christmas break the same number of books that used to take a year to be released will flood our marketplace, one that’s overcrowded with millions of titles published just in the last few years.
Over Christmas break the same number of books that used to take a year to be released will flood our marketplace, one that’s overcrowded with millions of titles published just in the last few years.
With
the nation at around 330,000,000 men, women, and children, one new title is
released for every 250 Americans each year.
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