Industry Statistics….A Good Primer

29Mar10

Here is a good primer for what is happening with e-reader sales and digital publishing. From the International Digital Publishing Forum site. We will check in on this site periodically…

The International Digital Publishing Forum collects quarterly US trade retail eBook sales in conjunction with the Association of American Publishers (AAP). For details on the AAP’s statistics program, please refer to the AAP website. The IDPF has aggregated quarterly statistics from the AAP’s program and earlier IDPF statistics program represented in the graph below. Please also see important notes below on the data.

The IDPF has collected additional eBook statistics from various sources below. The IDPF was not involved in collecting these statistics, however, and only includes them as a convenience.

US Trade Wholesale Electronic Book Sales

Compare against Q4 08 chart below

Quarters 2002 through Q3 2009

Quarters	Revenues	Quarters	Revenues	Quarters	Revenues
Q1 02	$1,556,499	Q1 06	$4,100,000	Jan 2010	$31,900,000
Q2 02	$1,258,989	Q2 06	$4,000,000	Q2 10
Q3 02	$1,329,548	Q3 06	$4,900,000	Q3 10
Q4 02	$1,649,144	Q4 06	$7,000,000	Q4 10
Q1 03	$1,794,544	Q1 07	$7,500,000
Q2 03	$1,842,502	Q2 07	$8,100,000
Q3 03	$1,789,455	Q3 07	$8,000,000
Q4 03	$1,917,384	Q4 07	$8,200,000
Q1 04	$1,794,130	Q1 08	$11,200,000
Q2 04	$1,887,900	Q2 08	$11,600,000
Q3 04	$2,460,343	Q3 08	$13,900,000
Q4 04	$3,477,130	Q4 08	$16,800,000
Q1 05	$3,161,049	Q1 09	$25,800,000
Q2 05	$3,182,499	Q2 09	$37,600,000
Q3 05	$2,310,291	Q3 09	$46,500,000
Q4 05	$2,175,131	Q4 09	$55,900,000

Important Notes About Collection & The Above Graph

The data above represent United States revenues only
The data above represent only trade eBook sales via wholesale channels. Retail numbers may be as much as double the above figures due to industry wholesale discounts.
The data above represent only data submitted from approx. 12 to 15 trade publishers
The data does not include library, educational or professional electronic sales
The numbers reflect the wholesale revenues of publishers
The definition used for reporting electronic book sales is “All books delivered electronically over the Internet OR to hand-held reading devices”
The IDPF and AAP began collecting data together starting in Q1 2006

Please report additional eBook sales statistics information to the IDPF for posting consideration.