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eBooks Now Account For 22.55% Of U.S. Book Sales
- paidContent, Friday, April 12, 2013 6:31 AM
In its full-year report for 2012, the Association of American Publishers reported that 22.55% of US book sales last year came from e-books. That share was dramatic rise from the 17% that ebooks grabbed in 2011 and 3% in 2009. Overall revenues were up 6.2% to 7.1 billion in 2012. And so e-books are now a $1.54 billion business.
