Digital e-book revenues elevated by 5.4% in the US in June 2024—the format generated 84.8 million {dollars}. Yr-to-date e-book revenues have been up 2.8% in comparison with the primary six months of 2023, for $507.3 million. E-book income is lastly rising, because it has declined for the previous few years.
Digital audiobook gross sales have been up 6.2% in June, reaching $79.7 million in income. Bodily Audio was down 20.3%, coming in at $800 thousand. Yr-to-date Digital Audiobooks have been up 19.7%, reaching $503.4 million in income. Bodily Audio was down 21.4%, coming in at $4.5 million. Audiobook gross sales in the US will probably cross e-book gross sales by the top of the yr.
When it comes to bodily paper format revenues throughout June, within the Commerce (Client Books) class, Hardback revenues have been up 6.6%, coming in at $212.5 million; Paperbacks have been up 0.3%, with $249.3 million in income; Mass Market was down 17.5% to $11.7 million; and Particular Bindings have been up 32.3%, with $15.5 million in income.
Yr-to-date Commerce revenues have been up 5.0%, at $4.3 billion for the primary six months. Hardback revenues have been up 4.3%, coming in at $1.5 billion; Paperbacks have been up 3.9%, with $1.5 billion in income; Mass Market was down 15.6% to $62.1 million; and Particular Bindings have been up 5.0%, with $92.1 million in income.
Michael Kozlowski is the editor-in-chief at Good e-Reader and has written about audiobooks and e-readers for the previous fifteen years. Newspapers and web sites such because the CBC, CNET, Engadget, Huffington Publish and the New York Instances have picked up his articles. He Lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
