Writing for Mashable, Lauren Indvik reports “According to the Association of American Publishers’s StatShot study released Thursday, e-books made up nearly a quarter (22.55%, to be precise) of U.S. trade publishers’ book sales last year.”
So What?
Just a few years ago e-books were a curious new option with limited adoption. In 2009, e-books accounted to only 3% of U.S. trade publishers’ book sales. Put differently, e-books experienced a 650%+ increase in adoption between 2009 and 2012. While only 1 in 33 new books purchased in 2009 was an e-book, the number had risen to almost 1 in 4 by 2012.
- When did you purchase your first e-book? What percentage of the books you read in 2013 do you project will be e-books?
- How is the rise in e-reading impacting how your church communicates the “written word”?