Digital Books Now 5% of UK Book Trade

Digital publishing new accounts for 5 percent of UK book sales, reports The Bookseller. This is due to a 27 percent increase in eBook sales over the two years leading up to 2009, according to the Publishers Association Statistics Yearbook .

Here’s a little excerpt from the article:

Simon Juden, chief executive of the PA said: “These statistics offer a unique snapshot of the burgeoning digital book industry. Whilst the market for digital products such as e-books and audiobooks is still in its infancy, the statistics show that there has been remarkable growth in publishers sales of these products since 2007, when we began collecting this data.

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