March 9, 2016
- Number of Barnes & Noble stores in 2010: 720
- In 2016: 640
- Number of stores Barnes & Noble expects to close in fiscal 2016: 8
- Number of stores Barnes & Noble expects to close in fiscal 2017: 14
- Number of new stores Barnes & Noble expects to open in fiscal 2017: 4
- Nook’s reported digital content sales in 2012: $317 million
- In 2013: $259 million
- In 2014: $200 million
- In 2015: $140 million
- Compensation to be distributed to consumers (from Apple) now that the antitrust ebook case is over: $400 million
- Of the $400 million settlement, how much Nook customers will receive: $105 million
- Value of the entire US ebook market in 2015 (estimated): $1.33 billion
- Number of publishers Ingram distributes today: ~125
- Number of publishers Ingram will distribute after Perseus deal: ~725
Sources: Barnes & Noble Earnings Gain on Lower eBook Losses; Nook Drops UK, Apps and Video; Quantifying Nook’s Decline, and More; Why Barnes & Noble Isn’t Going Away Yet; Second Time’s a Charm: Perseus Sells Publishing Lines to Hachette; Game Over: Supreme Court Denies Apple’s Request for Appeal
February 24, 2016
- Number of Kobo users: 26 million
- Number of Amazon.com users: 244 million
- Number of ebooks available on Kobo: 4.7 million
- Estimated number of ebooks available on Amazon: 4 million
- Average number of ebooks purchased by the most dedicated Kobo customers: 1 per month
- Average number of print books purchased by the most dedicated Kobo customers: 16 per year
- US bookstore sales increase in 2015 (over 2014): 2.5%
- Last year when US bookstores reported a sales increase: 2007
- US bookstore sales in 2015: $11.17 billion
- US bookstore sales in 2007: $17 billion
- Percentage of book-publishing market represented by ebooks in the U.S.: 13%
- In the UK: 11.5%
- In Germany: 5%
- In the EU: 1.5%
Sources: By the Numbers: 110+ Amazing Amazon Statistics (January 2016); Amazon Kindle Wikipedia entry; Kobo CEO Faces Uphill E-Book Battle against Apple, Amazon; E-Books: Evolving Markets and New Challenges
February 10, 2016
- Number of Facebook users at the end of 2015: 1.6 billion
- Average revenue per US and Canada Facebook user: $13.54
- Average revenue for European Facebook user: $4.50
- Average revenue for Asia-Pacific Facebook user: $1.59
- Number of WhatsApp (instant message app) users: 1 billion
- Top country for WhatsApp usage: South Africa
- Percentage of WhatsApp users using an Android device: 73%
- Owner of WhatsApp: Facebook
- Number of ebooks currently available from Amazon Kindle store: 4 million
- Number of ebooks available for Kindle six years ago: 600,000
- Number of bestselling Kindle ebooks in 2015 that were self-published: one-third
Sources: 8 (Plus One) Revealing Media Numbers from January 2016; Facebook Q4 2015 Results; By the Numbers: 50 Amazing WhatsApp Statistics; Meredith Wild, a Self-Publisher Making an Imprint
January 27, 2016
- Increase in US print sales of adult nonfiction books in 2015: 7%
- Increase in US print sales of art/design/photography category in 2015: 60%
- Decrease in US print sales of computer category in 2015: 9%
- Decrease in US print sales of humor category in 2015: 5%
- Increase in US print sales of adult fiction books in 2015: 2%
- Increase in US print sales of the classics in 2015: 32%
- Decrease in US print sales of psychology/horror in 2015: 33%
- Decrease in US print sales of mystery/detective in 2015: 12%
- Pottermore revenue in 2014: £31.8 million
- Pottermore revenue in 2015: £7 million
- Pottermore profit in 2014: £14.9 million
- Pottermore profit in 2015: -£6 million (loss)
- Average pageviews per month at Wikipedia: 18 billion
- Number of new articles added every month to Wikipedia: 20,000
- Number of registered Wikipedia users: 23 million
- Number-one Wikipedia article (English language): List of deaths by year
Sources: The Hot and Cold Book Categories of 2015; Harry Potter Digital Arm Loses £$6m and Sheds Jobs; Wikipedia at 15
January 13, 2016
- Number of readers who receive BookBub ebook discount deals via email: 7 million
- Number of BookBub Facebook followers: 2.7 million
- Number of ebook discount deals offered by BookBub in 2015: 12,308
- Number of ebooks submitted to be a BookBub discount offer in 2015: 55,000+
- Number of books that hit the NYT bestseller list after a BookBub promotion: 200+
- Number of ebooks sold through BookBub discount offers: 20+ million
- Amount of funding BookBub raised in 2015: $7 million
- Increase in library circulation of ebooks from 2014 to 2015: 19%
- In circulation of audiobooks: 36%
- In circulation of streaming video: 83%
- Number of years ago that Amazon Prime launched in the United States: 10
- Annual cost of Amazon Prime for U.S. customers in 2006: $79
- Annual cost of Amazon Prime for U.S. customers in 2016: $99
- Number of other countries where Amazon Prime is offered: 8
- Most expensive country for Amazon Prime: U.K. ($115)
- Least expensive countries for Amazon Prime: Italy and Spain ($22)
Sources: BookBub by the Numbers in 2015; Libraries Lend Record Numbers of Ebooks and Audiobooks in 2015; What Amazon Prime Is Like around the World
December 30, 2015
- Number of (debut) fiction and poetry translations published in 2014: 600
- In 2015: 549
- Number of publishers who brought out at least one new fiction or poetry translation in 2014: 202
- In 2015: 151
- Publisher with highest number of new translations in 2014 and 2015: AmazonCrossing
- Percentage of translations released in 2015 that came from AmazonCrossing: 14
- Percentage of adults under the age of 32 who don’t pay for TV: 35
- Percentage of adults under the age of 32 who have never paid for TV: 7
- Percentage of adults who do not subscribe to cable/satellite TV: 24
- Percentage of millennials who get political news from Facebook: 61
- Percentage of baby boomers: 39
- Percentage of millennials who get political news from local TV: 37
- Percentage of baby boomers: 60
- Percentage of time on mobile devices spent on news: 10
- Average time per day currently spent on mobile devices by Americans: 3 hours
- Average time per day spent on mobile devices in 2010: 24 minutes
Sources: Translation Database Updates: AmazonCrossing Is the Story; By 2025, 50% of Adults Under Age 32 Will Not Pay for TV; Cord Cutting Survey: 19% of Young Adults Have Dropped Cable or Satellite TV Service; 2015 Numbers, 2016 Outlook for Advertising, Mobile and Emerging Markets; 15 Striking Findings from 2015
December 16, 2015
- Percentage of bestselling ebooks sold in May 2015 that came from major publishers: 27
- Percentage of bestselling ebooks sold in Nov. 2015 that came from major publishers: 18
- Average price point of bestselling ebooks sold in May 2015 from major publishers: $8.22
- Average price point of bestselling ebooks sold in Nov. 2015 from major publishers: $9.47
- Average price point of bestselling ebooks sold in May 2015 from everyone else: $4.58
- Average price point of bestselling ebooks sold in Nov. 2015 from everyone else: $4.57
- Percentage of patrons who have read an ebook in the past year: 44
- Percentage of patrons who borrowed an ebook in the past year: 25
- Percentage of patrons happy with the ebook selection at their library: 51
- Percentage of patrons who listened to an audiobook in the past year: 12
- Percentage of patrons who borrowed an audiobook in the past year: 9
- Percentage of the global ad market spend devoted to TV in 2015: 38.4
- Percentage devoted to digital media in 2015: 31.8
- When digital media ad spend is anticipated to overtake TV ad spend: 2017
Sources: “Huge, Untracked Shadow Industry” in E-Books; New Study Finds Low Levels of Digital Library Borrowing; Digital Ad Spending Expected to Soon Surpass TV
December 2, 2015
- Random House’s share of the New York Times bestseller list in mid-November: 28.9%
- Penguin’s share: 20%
- Hachette’s share: 12.8%
- Simon & Schuster’s share: 11.1%
- HarperCollins’s share: 7.2%
- Macmillan’s share: 5.6%
- The share of all other publishers combined: 14.4%
- Number of new books self-published (with ISBNs) in the US in 2012: 391,000
- Increase in self-published titles between 2007 and 2012: 422%
- Number of new non-self-published books in the US in 2012: 300,000
- Number of reissues and reprints (e.g., public domain works) since 2007: 10 million
- Percentage of new titles published each year that will be stocked in an average bookstore: 1
- Percentage of Americans using social media who have used it to look for a job: 35
- Who have used social media to inform friends of an available job: 34
- Who have applied for a job discovered through social media contacts: 21
- Percentage of whites who use social media to let friends know about a job: 31
- Percentage of blacks who use social media to let friends know about a job: 53
Sources: New Stats: A Glimpse at “Bestseller Shares”, Self-Publishing Movement Continues Strong Growth in U.S., Says Bowker, Job Seeking in the Era of Smartphones and Social Media
November 18, 2015
- Decline of Facebook traffic to top 30 publisher websites since January: 32%
- Decline of Facebook traffic to top 10 publisher websites since January: 42.7%
- Decline to Huffington Post: 60.1%
- Decline to Fox News: 48.2%
- Decline to Buzzfeed: 40.8%
- Change in publishers’ trade book sales from January to July 2015: +0.3%
- Change in publishers’ trade book sales when compared to 2014: -2%
- Change in publishers’ ebook sales when compared to 2014: -11.2%
- Change in publishers’ digital audio sales when compared to 2014: +37%
- Market share of Big Five publishers in 2014: 28%
- Market share of Big Five publishers in 2015: 37%
- Market share of self-published books in 2014: 14%
- Market share of self-published books in 2015: 18%
- Market share of all other publishers in 2014: 58%
- Market share of all other publishers in 2015: 45%
Sources: Facebook’s Traffic to Top Publishers Fell 32 Percent Since January, Publishers’ Net Revenue and Growth for First Half of 2015, Self-Publishing & Big Five Dominate Book Market, According to Nielsen
November 4, 2015
- Percentage of US libraries offering ebooks in 2015: 94
- Percentage of US libraries offering digital audiobooks in 2015: 94
- Median number of ebooks offered by US libraries in 2010: 813
- In 2015: 14,397
- Ebook spending as a percentage of all US libraries’ budgets: 6.3
- Ebook spending as a percentage of largest US libraries’ budgets: 9
- Percentage of US libraries’ collections represented by ebooks: 11
- Percentage of US libraries’ ebook collections that are fiction: 74
- Percentage of US libraries’ print book collections that are fiction: 58
- Percentage of US libraries that carry self-published ebooks: 20
- Percentage of US adults who own a smartphone in 2015: 68
- In 2014: 64
- Percentage of US adults who own a tablet in 2015: 45
- In 2014: 42
- Percentage of US adults who own an e-reading device in 2015: 19
- In 2014: 32
Sources: 2015 Survey of Ebook Usage in U.S. Public Libraries, Pew Research Technology Device Ownership 2015