Print Books Vs Ebooks Sales

The national endowment for the arts issued a new report and found that adults who read ebooks and listen to audiobooks consumed the most books per year.

Print books vs ebooks sales. Although readers save on the cost of e books versus print books a reader wouldn t break even until approximately 20 books at 15 20 per paper book. This ebook reader is awesome. According to the wall street journal sales of traditional print books rose by 5 percent in the us last year while sales of ebooks plunged by 17 percent.

Print books remain the most popular format for reading with 65 of adults saying they had read a print book in the year before the survey. Most of them provide one hand experience. In 2016 that dropped to 23.

Have you met libby. But if you read a lot of books the overall cost is reduced with an ebook reader. As the price gap narrows it significantly dampens the allure of the e book.

Publishers of books in all formats made almost 26 billion in revenue last year in the u s with print making up. The same trend can be seen in north america. Then there is the cost of the device.

It will be interesting to see if this. Cheaper than ebook reader. If you don t read much a print book will be more economical.

It might be a surprise but for most people old school print on paper still wins. Photo by jonas jacobsson on unsplash 7 reasons ebooks are better than printed books. Even a no frills kindle costs 80.