Ebooks made up 22.55 percent of all US publishing revenue in 2012 | The Verge

posted on 14/04/2013 09:37

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The US publishing industry appears to be turning over a new leaf: ebook sales made up 22.5 percent of the industry’s net revenue last year, according to a new survey from the Association of American Publishers. That’s up from just 0.05 percent 10 years prior, when the AAP first began keeping track of ebook sales, and up from 16.98 percent in 2011. The categories that saw the biggest increase in ebook revenues included adult fiction, adult nonfiction, and religious books. Even more encouraging, the overall net revenue for the US publishing industry was $7.1 billion, up 6.2 percent from 2011. […]

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