Ebook sales within the US double year-on-year, paper books suffer double-digit losses

Mar 20th 2011
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We doubt the arena will ever get to a stage where it’ll completely ditch ye olde paper books, however the US consumer market seems to obviously have its heart set at the electronic kind at once. Net ebook sales in January were this week reported to have accumulated $69.9 million in revenue for his or her publishers, which amounts to a 116 percent jump from last year’s total for the month. Throughout the same period, adult hardcovers were down 11.3 percent to $49.1 million and paperbacks faced an analogous reduction widespread and fell to $83.6 million, a precipitous drop of nineteen.7 percent year-on-year. Educational and youngsters’s books weren’t spared from this cull of the physical tome, either — skip past the break to determine the whole statistical breakdown.

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E-Books, Downloadable Audio Books Continue Growth In line with AAP Publishers January 2011 Sales Report

March 17, 2011, Ny, NY– E-books and downloadable audio books keep growing in popularity in accordance with the January 2011 sales report of the Association of yankee Publishers. Figures for the 1st month of the brand new year show that E-book net sales increased by 115.8% vs January 2010 (from $32.4 Million to $69.9M). Sales of Downloadable Audio Books also rose by 8.8% vs the former year ($6.0M to $6.5M). As AAP reported last month in its December 2010 monthly report and entire 2010 analysis, E-book sales have increased annually and significantly in all nine years of tracking the class.

The various other highlights of the January 2011 report:

Total books sales on all platforms, in all categories, hit $805.7 Million for January. This was a slight drop from January 2010′s $821.5M sales (-1.9%).

Adult Hardcover category fell from $55.4M to $49.1M (-11.3%), Adult Paperback dropped from $104.2M to $83.6 (-19.7%) and Adult Mass Market declined from $56.4M to $39.0 (-30.9%)

Inside the Children’s/Young Adult category, Hardcover sales were $31.2M in January 2011 vs $31.8M in January 2010 (-1.9%) while Paperbacks were $25.4M, down 17.7% from $30.9M in January 2010.

Physical Audio Books sales were $7.3M vs $7.9M the former year (-6.7%).

Sales of spiritual Books grew by 5.6%, from $49.8M to $52.6M.

Sales within the Higher Education category were $382.0M for January 2011, a slight drop (-1.4%) from $387.6M the former year. K-12 sales hit $82.6M for the month vs $97.0M for the former year (-14.9%).

In Professional and Scholarly Books, sales grew 1.3%, from $51.2M to $51.8M. Sales of University Press Hardcovers were $3.9M in January 2011 vs $4.5M the former year (-14.0%) while University Press Paperbacks were $6.2M vs $6.7M (-7.8%).

All figures cited represent domestic net sales for U.S. book publishers.

About AAP
The Association of yankee Publishers is the national trade association of the U.S. book publishing industry. Its 300 members include a lot of the major commercial, education and professional publishers in addition to smaller and non-profit publishers, university presses and scholarly societies. They publish content on every platform for an international audience.