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| Net Sales Revenue From Book Publishing Is Up |
According to a recent article in gallycat, revenue from downloaded audiobooks has increased by a whopping 32.7% from last year (25 million vs 18.8 million). That's amazing, and excellent news for folks, such as myself, who love listening to stories.
Lately, I've been putting together a list of book bloggers who review self-published books, or who do author interviews with self published authors, and I've noticed a startling trend: increasing numbers of reviewers prefer submissions in audiobook format. Good news for authors who have made an audiobook version of their story and something that could give self published authors an edge.
But that isn't the only interesting statistic. Net sales revenue from ebook sales (283 M) has surpassed that from adult hardcover sales (230 M)--although not from adult paperback sales (300 M), although adult paperback sales have gone down by 10.5 percent. But the largest decrease of all was in the category of sales revenue from mass market paperbacks; sales in this category have decreased by an amazing 20.8 percent.
For your viewing convenience, I've included the table from the original article, above.
To read the original article, head over to galleycat.com and read eBook Revenues Top Hardcover.
Thanks to Passive Guy for writing about this (eBook Reviews Top Hardcover).
