Publishing Statistics
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Altogether total book sale income (physical and digital) was up 4% in 2017 to £3.7bn. Physical book sales continue to outpace digital, with revenue up 5% last year to £3.1bn, while total digital sales income including journals rose 3% to £1.8bn
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Fiction sales income (physical and digital) is up 3% to £547m.
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Consumer e-book sales are down from last year by 7% to £191m
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Out of 1,000 respondents aged 16-24, 64% said they preferred print books, 16% said ebooks, and 20% said they didn’t mind.
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Self-help had the largest unit gain within adult nonfiction; sales were 18% higher than in 2016
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The UK reached peak e-reader in 2014, when a quarter of UK book buyers owned one. Three years on that figure was back to only just over one-fifth
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Sales of printed books rose 7% in 2016 while e-book sales fell as mobiles and tablets overtook dedicated e-readers
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The BBC is becoming a “monopoly broadcaster” and as such is risking the business of local newspapers.
Sources: The Bookseller, Digital Book World, Nielsen BookScan, Publishers Weekly, BBC, The Times, PwC, The Guardian
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