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This statistic presents e-book sales as a percentage of total book sales worldwide in 2013 and provides a forecast for 2018. In 2013, the digital sales market share amounted to just over ** percent and is expected to more than double by 2018.

E-book market – additional information

Electronics and mobility influence every step of a consumer’s life, including media consumption as well. The book industry is no exception, which is reflected in the e-book usage being on the rise. The forecasted 13-percent growth in sales between 2013 and 2018 is also expected to result in revenue gains. Within the same period, sources predict revenues from e-book sales in the United States alone to increase by more than **** billion U.S. dollars, reaching nearly *** billion by the end of 2018.

At the beginning of 2016, daily e-book unit sales on Amazon amounted to approximately *** thousand. Only ** percent of them were published by the so called ‘big five’ – Penguin Random House, Macmillan, HarperCollins, Hachette and Simon & Schuster. As the distribution data shows, the largest share – roughly ** percent - was independently published. However, the bestseller market still seemed to be dominated by the ‘big five’. In fact, Penguin Random House was the leading e-book publisher in the first half of 2014, with *** bestsellers released in that time.

Although certain sources point to a decline in the number of e-books sold over the past decade, it may attributed to the fact that more and more libraries offer e-books to their patrons. In 2015, ** percent of surveyed public libraries in the United States reported having electronic books in their holdings. What is more, the majority of those libraries accessed between *** to **** thousand e-books, while ** percent said they had access to more than ** thousand.