The share of adults who have read an e-book in the last 12 months in the United States dropped to 25 percent in 2019. E-book consumption tends to fluctuate, growing significantly between 2011 and 2014 and holding until 2016, but dropping slightly since. E-books are more popular than audiobooks among adults in all age categories, but print is the most popular format by a large margin.

A survey held in early 2021 revealed that 42 percent of adults aged between 18 and 29 years old had read an e-book in the last we months, making respondents in this age group the most likely to have done so. By contrast, just 18 percent of adults aged 65 or above had read an e-book in the same time period.

According to a survey held in 2022 in the United Kingdom, 38 percent of all respondents claimed they either downloaded or accessed e-books at least once a week, and 62 percent said they did so less often. Consumers aged 12 to 15 years old were most likely to read e-books very regularly, with 48 percent saying that they downloaded or accessed e-books most days or about once per week.

This statistic presents e-book sales as a percentage of total book sales worldwide in 2013 and provides a forecast for 2018. In 2013, the digital sales market share amounted to just over ** percent and is expected to more than double by 2018.

E-book market – additional information

Electronics and mobility influence every step of a consumer’s life, including media consumption as well. The book industry is no exception, which is reflected in the e-book usage being on the rise. The forecasted 13-percent growth in sales between 2013 and 2018 is also expected to result in revenue gains. Within the same period, sources predict revenues from e-book sales in the United States alone to increase by more than **** billion U.S. dollars, reaching nearly *** billion by the end of 2018.

At the beginning of 2016, daily e-book unit sales on Amazon amounted to approximately *** thousand. Only ** percent of them were published by the so called ‘big five’ – Penguin Random House, Macmillan, HarperCollins, Hachette and Simon & Schuster. As the distribution data shows, the largest share – roughly ** percent - was independently published. However, the bestseller market still seemed to be dominated by the ‘big five’. In fact, Penguin Random House was the leading e-book publisher in the first half of 2014, with *** bestsellers released in that time.

Although certain sources point to a decline in the number of e-books sold over the past decade, it may attributed to the fact that more and more libraries offer e-books to their patrons. In 2015, ** percent of surveyed public libraries in the United States reported having electronic books in their holdings. What is more, the majority of those libraries accessed between *** to **** thousand e-books, while ** percent said they had access to more than ** thousand.

Trade e-book revenue amounted to ****billion U.S. dollars in 2023. The source noted that e-book sales revenue grew only marginally by *** percent between 2022 and 2023, whereas digital audio revenue was up by almost ** percent.

In 2017, e-books accounted for 19 percent of all book sales in the United States, three percent less than in the previous year. This is due to e-book unit sales dropping from 180 million in 2016 to 162 million in 2017. In the latter year, the top-selling e-book was 'The Handmaid's Tale' by Margaret Atwood, a novel which has seen become a highly popular and successful TV series.

A survey conducted in the United Kingdom in 2022 found that the main reason for reading e-books was the convenience of storing books digitally rather than physically, whereas ** percent said they enjoyed having a wide range to choose from.

The timeline presents data on e-book sales revenue generated in the United States from 2008 to 2013, as well as a forecast until 2018. The source expects the revenue will grow from **** billion in 2011 to **** billion in 2018.

E-book sales in the United States - additional information

An e-book, also known as an electronic or digital book, is a digitally released version of a book, often consisting of text and images and available on electronic devices, such as specifically designed e-book readers. The most well known e-book device is the Amazon Kindle, originally released in 2007. E-books can also be used on computers, tablets and even on smartphones, as this survey shows.

In the United States, the e-books industry has grown tremendously in the past decade, primarily due to a higher supply and demand of e-book devices and applications, but also due to lower prices compared to hard copies, as well as ease of travel and storage. However, forecasts suggest that the number of e-book users in the U.S. is expected to fall from ***** million in 2015 to ***** million in 2021.

Many e-books are available through American public libraries, which, since 2003, have an increasingly popular e-book lending model of both fiction and non-fiction titles for different audiences. However, despite the rise in e-book popularity, hard copy books were still the preferred choice for readers in 2015. Based on a survey, ** percent of all respondents claimed to read only hard copy books, while only **** percent of all respondents read only e-books. Unsurprisingly, the most prolific e-book readers are the Millennials (ages 18 to 29), which make up ** percent of all digital book readers.

Estimates show that *** million e-books were sold in the United States in 2020, according to the most recently available data. Precise figures on e-book sales are difficult to gather due to smaller publishers and major retailers such as Amazon being missed from sales data, and other factors such as the varying methodologies sources use to track and measure the market. For example, whilst figures for 2016 and 2017 are lower than the immediately preceding years, it was noted that figures for these years only included around *** publishers. E-books in the U.S. E-book sales revenue in the United States fluctuates, and like unit sales, is prone to readjustments and changes in measurement. The best and most accurate estimates place revenue at over *********** U.S. dollars, the highest recorded so far but only a small improvement from the numbers given for 2017 and 2018. Expenditure on digital book readers also wavers, tending to hover between ** and ** U.S. dollars per year. In 2013, annual spending on e-readers averaged over ** U.S. dollars, but the number has not reached that level again since, suggesting that such devices have already lost ground as consumers instead opt to use their smartphones for on-the-go media consumption. E-book readers Book fans all across the United States read e-books, though data on e-book readers by urbanity shows that consumers in rural parts of the country are less likely to engage with the format than those living in urban and suburban areas. Survey data on print and digital book readership highlights the continued preference for print, with only a small number of consumers exclusively reading digital books. However, growing numbers of book readers favor a combination of print and digital books, which is good news for publishers branching out beyond traditional formats but still wanting to produce printed books.

The global number of users in the 'e-books' segment of the digital media market was forecast to continuously increase between 2024 and 2027 by in total **** million users (+**** percent). After the fifth consecutive increasing year, the indicator is estimated to reach *** billion users and therefore a new peak in 2027. Find more information concerning Russia and Poland. The Statista Market Insights cover a broad range of additional markets.

This statistic shows global e-book revenue from 2009 to 2011, and a forecast thereof to 2016, broken down by region. In 2010, e-book revenue in North America amounted to 1.2 billion U.S. dollars and was forecast to grow to almost 11 billion U.S. dollars by 2016. The revenue from trade e-book sales stood at 1.1 billion U.S. dollars in 2011 and grew to 1.4 billion U.S. dollars in 2015.

E-books - additional information

Electronic books have been around for over twenty years, but it was not until the recent mobile revolution that the medium’s revenues began to reflect its potential. The North American market, boosted by surge of interest from consumers in the United States, is one of the fastest-growing e-book markets in the world, but growth in Western Europe and the Asia Pacific region is predicted to increase.

Between 2008 and 2012, the unit sales per year increased by over 400 million units, and by 2018, the e-book share of total book sales is expected to grow to over 25 percent, more than doubling its share from 2013. Whereas electronic book consumption and revenue is expected to grow, almost all print book categories are expected to decrease.

Consumers are still refraining from completely embracing the e-reader and e-book trend. A survey of U.S. readers in 2015 revealed that 47 percent only read hard copy books, while only four percent only read e-books. Unsurprisingly, younger people are more likely to be e-book readers, especially as many of the newer e-reading devices are also tablet computers or smartphones, giving consumers even more reason to have these devices around on a more regular basis.

This statistic presents data on e-book consumption, by paid or free accessing, among e-book consumers in the United Kingdom (UK) from August 2012 to May 2018, in eight survey waves. As of the most recent survey wave, ending May 2018, 52 percent of those who consumed e-books did so entirely for free.

According to a survey conducted in 2022, the share of internet users in the United Kingdom who had consumed e-books illegally via either a mix of legal and illegal sources or exclusively illegal sources was 24 percent in the three months running to the survey. This was up by 10 percent from the previous year.

This statistic presents the leading e-book genres in the United States in 2017, by units sold. In 2017, approximately ***** million romance e-books were sold in the United States.

This statistic shows the median number of e-books held in academic library collections in the United States from 2010 to 2016. In 2016, the median number of e-books held in academic libraries in the U.S. was ******.

Between 2010 and 2020, the compound annual growth rate of e-book revenue grew by just 13.3 percent in the United States. By contrast, the CAGR of e-book revenue in Germany climbed by 45.3 percent during the same time period.

A total of *** million e-books were sold in the United States in 2020, according to the most recently available data. E-book unit sales tend to fluctuate, although the sharp increase between 2019 and 2020 could be as a result of the coronavirus outbreak, which saw large increases in media consumption.

As of February 2024 in the Netherlands, the share of surveyed respondents saying they were reading mostly or only paper books remained stood at ** percent. By comparison, the share of people reporting they were reading mostly or only ebooks amounted to ** percent.

This statistic displays data on consumer, educational, and professional book and e-book publishing revenue worldwide in 2013 as well as a forecast for those figures in 2018, broken down by platform and type. According to PwC, consumer e-book revenue is projected to grow from *** billion U.S. dollars in 2013 to **** billion U.S. dollars in 2018.

The statistic above presents the e-book share of total book sales in selected countries worldwide as of February 2017. According to the source, ** percent of all books sold in the United States are e-books.