·
In
2009, more books were published via print-on-demand than traditionally.
·
Only
40% of all book sales in 2008 occurred through bookstores. Another 40% of sales
to customers occurred outside traditional trade locations.
·
E-book
sales accounted for 3% of all book sales in 2009, up from 1% in 2008.
·
In
2009, 20% of print, audio and e-book sales took place online.
The
book industry has changed since then.
PublishingPerspectives.com
reports that, for the first time, in 2017, trade book publisher sales to
physical and online channels were the same -- $7.6 billion each.
The
$26 billion US book market consists of trade publishing $16 billion), Higher
Education ($4 billion), Pre-K – 12 ($3.62 billion), Professional ($2.35
billion), University Presses ($290 million).
Audiobook
sales grew 146% from 2013 – 2017.
2.7
billion units of books were sold in 2017, led by over a billion paperbacks sold
(represents 36.9% of the market).
Downloaded
audiobook slaes rose 36.1% last year, while physical audiobooks declined by
11.4%.
AAP says e-book sales dropped 3.8% last year, but Forbes said traditional publishers sold 10% fewer e-book units in 2017 vs. the prior year.
A
Few Thoughts
“If
you don’t want to be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things
worth reading or do things worth writing about.”
– Benjamin Franklin
“Everything
I sell, sells everything I sell.”
– Mark Victor Hansen
“When
you write about what you love and love what you write, working is something you
look forward to. When your avocation and vocation are the same, your research
is fun. When your passion center becomes your profit center, you are making a
living doing what you want to do.”
– Dan Poynter
“Many of
life’s failures are men who did not realize how close they were to success when
they gave up.” – Thomas Edison, American
inventor
“To get
what we have never had, we must do what we have never done.”
– Unknown
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