Ebooks Vs Printed Books Statistics 2019

Just 7 of americans say they only read books in digital formats and have not read any print books in the past 12 months.

Ebooks vs printed books statistics 2019. Both hardcover and paperback books still rule the market with approximately 3 billion and 2 5 billion in sales in 2019 respectively. For early 2019 e book sales continued to decline going down nearly 5 in revenue having brought in only 244 million in sales in the first three months of the year. Hard copy book sales for the month of august 2019 made up about 80 of all total book sales.

Hardcover book sales saw a 7 8 594 million increase in revenue and paperback sales saw a respectable 3 1 553 6 million. About a quarter of americans haven t read a book in any format in the past year demographic differences in book reading in 2019 are similar to the patterns seen in past center surveys. Print books remain the most popular format.

The decline in ebooks is good for the traditional print industry. For example adults with a bachelor s or advanced degree are more likely to be book readers than those who have only attended some college high school graduates and those with less. Recent statistics show that e books brought in 771 million in the us market between january and september 2018.

Publishers of books in all formats made almost 26 billion in revenue last year in the u s with print making up 22 6 billion and e books taking 2 04 billion according to the association of. This was 10 million less than in the same quarter of 2018.