In 2023 OverDrive’s digital library downloads alone were 86% of total US print sales, while Kindle Unlimited paid out $575 million
Per The Bookseller, reporting on Nielsen BookScan’s Total Consumer Market report for 2023, the...
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Tag: US ebook market
H1 ebook revenue down says AAP as it omits well over a quarter billion dollars in uncounted ebook spend
The Kindle Unlimited pot pay-out for self-published authors’ ebooks is on target to exceed...
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April US publishing numbers tell a selective story
In April the pot pay-out to indie authors and small presses for ebooks downloaded via the Kindle...
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US – AAP-reported trade revenues up 3.1% in January. Ebooks up 3.7%. Unreported Kindle Unlimited pay-out up 5.7% – over half the AAP total
If we add the KU pay-out to the AAP figure we have an ebook market value for January of $132.9...
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OverDrive clocked over 500 million downloads in 2022, and it may actually have been 587 million
The important message here is a simple one: consumer interest in ebooks is not declining, no...
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AAP reports October ebook REVENUE worth $84 million. For the same month Kindle Unlimited paid out $39.8 million in ROYALTIES. Just how big is the real ebook market no-one wants to talk about?
Per the AAP, tracked ebook sales REVENUE from January through October 2021 amounted to $892.5...
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The AAP’s latest US publishing revenue figures leave tens of millions of dollars in ebook revenue uncounted
We simply don’t know the true scale of the impact ebooks have on the US and global book markets,...
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Since Jan 2018 the Kindle Unlimited ebook subscription service has paid out over $1 billion in royalties to indie authors
The invisible ebook market redux: the ebook market is bigger than we realise, and subscription...
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Amazon expands UK imprint ambitions as A-Pub holds half the US top ten today. A-Pub has more titles than Bloomsbury, Kensington or HMH if BookStat numbers are correct
At noon today (GMT) five of the top ten slots in the Kindle charts were taken by Lake Union (2),...
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