The figures for the US book market have just come in, and one piece of news is sure to delight digital book lovers: ebook sales topped the billion-dollar mark in 2023.
This is an impressive figure: in the USA, in 2023, digital books of the ebook (text) type brought in over a billion dollars (+0.6%)!
This figure covers sales of digital books for e-readers, of course, but also sales of ebooks to be read on computers (PDF documents), smartphones and tablets (ebooks from the apps from Google and Apple).
While printed books are holding up remarkably well, with estimated sales of almost $9 billion by 2023, the same cannot be said for physical audiobooks. Unsurprisingly, sales of physical audiobooks (in CD form) are down to a paltry $12.9 million.
Now, if we add up all these figures, we see that the book market is slightly down by 0.3% over the year 2023.
The market is therefore holding steady, with digital sales continuing to increase year on year.
These figures come from the AAP (Association of American Publishers). Source : https://publishingperspectives.com/2024/03/aap-statshot-in-2023-us-revenues-were-12-6-billion/
