Research request: December 9, 2011

Anyway, see the stats below that you pulled in August. Would you take a look and see if you can find any more recent numbers? I'm teaching a Webinar for Writer's Digest in Jan (need to do the marketing copy by Monday) and want to make sure I have the "latest" stats.

"According to Publishers Weekly, self-publishing and POD accounted for 63 percent of all books printed in 2009. I have this old stat but I want to know what it is in 2010. Can you find out how many POD books were published in 2010 (and traditional published as well)? And can you see if you can find a stat that shows how many ebooks were published in 2010 and 2009?"

POD:

The Bowker link with POD stats that I gave you back in July is the most current release that they have on their site.

Here's a statistic-filled article that doesn't address POD books specifically, but mentions the number of new ISBNs registered:

"The statistics also reveal that the number of publishers has risen with 2010 seeing 3,151 new publishers registering for an ISBN, the highest for 10 years. Nielsen 2010 book output figures show that 151,969 new titles were published in 2010, a leap of 14% on the output number given this time last year. The figure is derived from the number of ISBNs Nielsen issues over the year. However, the 2009 figure, of 133,000, has since been increased to 157,039 because of the late addition of digital titles in that year, a factor that may also further increase the 2010 figure. It means that year-on-year book production fell 3.2%, though the trend shows that output has soared: since 2008 it is up 13%, and since 2001, the market has risen by close to 40%."

E-books:

I found a recent article that highlighted e-book sales figures from an Association of American Publishers release:

"E-books grew a dramatic +164.8 percent in December 2010 vs the previous year ($49.5 Million vs $18.7M). In the AAP’s ninth year of tracking this category, E-books once again increased significantly on an annual basis, up +164.4 percent for 2010 vs 2009 ($441.3M vs $166.9M). E-book sales represented 8.32 percent of the trade book market in 2010 vs 3.20 percent the previous year."

Not specifically speaking to exact numbers of e-book sales, but an interesting stat nonetheless about Amazon.com:

"Now the company has hit a more significant milestone, selling 143 e-books for every 100 hardcover books sold over the course of the second quarter."