Amazon Ebook Market Share

For your friday reading pleasure the latest edition of the author earnings report explores which retailers control how much of the us ebook market.

Amazon ebook market share. But by a huge margin. In total amazon accounts for more than 5 of the total us online and offline sales. Leading e book reader brands in france 2016 2019 by number of users.

Sales for amazon ebooks through publishdrive jumped by 8 from 39 in 2018 and 47 in 2019. To my surprise amazon really did seem to totally dominate in terms of ebook market share and i think i realized why their sales are nearly all of the market yet most authors who are wide only get half their sales from amazon. By 2019 amazon s share of the total us ecommerce market is projected to hit 52 4 up from 48 in 2018.

The global e book market is fragmented with many independent authors and publishers while certain players account for a majority share in the market. Apart from the amazon bookstore it is also a publishing house for printed books. E book unit sales share on amazon worldwide 2017 by publisher category.

Review title review title. A little history tells you that amazon was and is all about the book market and readers. The folks behind the author earnings report would disagree.

Amazon s kdp apple s ibooks author among others hold a dominant share in the global e books market. Conventional wisdom says that amazon has 65 of the us ebook market. When looking at the ebook market share in 2019 we saw that the data shifted a bit.

What market share do amazon apple b n kobo and google have selling ebooks. Amazon has 50 or more of the us print book market and at least three quarters of publishers ebook sales it also has its own ebook publishing business for which it has never disclosed any data. The competition today or lack of it.