Amazon has an even greater share of the digital book market than previously thought

Amazon Kindle

Amazon's market share in the United States was thought to be that reached 65 percent, although the authors behind a new report disagree.

The latest edition of Author Earnings explores how distributors control part of the digital book market in the United States and where they focused in past reports. only in the Kindle store, last October showed a cross-sectional view of the ebook market in this country.

The report shows how Amazon owns 74 percent of the units sold in this important market, and 71% of the dollars spent in consuming this type of leisure.

Other data they offer is like 99 percent of ebook sales are made through the five largest distributors of these kinds of books. Amazon accounts for the majority of those sales, with iBooks ranking second for XNUMX to XNUMX percent of total sales.

EBooks Market

Barnes & Noble is in third place with 7-8 percent followed by Kobo with 3-4 percent of sales. In the last place he stays Google Play Books with 1-2 percent of this digital book market.

Another of the conclusions drawn from this report is how in the Apple ebook store master Big Five with 58 percent of units sold at 74 percent profit.

Some data offered that show how the great giant in this of digital books it even has greater power of which it seemed to him to intuit. A domination in this market, at least in this country taken as an example, which it will still maintain if everything continues as it is until now. Something in contrast to the known in relation to traditional book sales that were increased.


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