eBooks are booming. But you knew that.
You also knew or could suss out some of the findings from Revealing the Business of eBooks: 2009-2012, the 4th eBook survey of publishers by Aptara and Publisher’s Weekly.
Some more eBook facts:
Amazon rules: 68% of eBook publishers sell via Amazon. Apple’s iBookstore is used by 58 percent of eBook publishers.
80% of publishers now publish eBooks.
According to the report, 36% of eBook publishers are “realizing double-digit annual eBook revenues” This is up 100% year over year. 100% is big.
Digital or print? As in last year’s survey, this year’s response was not either/or but both. In 2011, 85%of publishers said they were producing digital editions of their print titles rather than producing digital editions in lieu of print. The same numbers held strong, rising a single point this year to 86%
Here is a link to the study.
It’s still amazing to see those Amazon numbers, even from back in 2012. Makes you wonder what the split is now. Speaking of digital formats, I recently had to extract some images from an old ebook, and they were all in WebP format. Needed them as PNGs for something else, so I used a WebP to PNG converter online. Worked like a charm.
It’s wild to see those Amazon numbers from back then – 68% is a huge market share. Thinking about the research involved in backing up claims like that actually makes me shudder a little. On a related note, if anyone needs to автоматическое создание цитат APA, I found a super handy tool that makes it pretty painless.