E-book infographic with figures of the Dutch e-book market as per Q4 2015

1. LoansareloanedtitlesthroughBibliotheek.nl.
Basedonweightedaverageofthesuggestedretailpricefore-books
andtheweightedaveragegrosspriceofphysicalbooksperyear.
Basedonsalesoverthepast12months.
Onlysales.Throughdownloads(watermark,AdobeDRM,none)and
ecosystems.
SouSource:GfK(December2015).
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5.
Growthand/orshrinkpercentagesarebasedonguresfromtheprevious
iinfographic(October2015),unlessindicatedotherwise.
January2016
ThisinfographiciscompiledfromdatafromCBandGfK.Misprintsreserved.Nopartofthispublication
maybereproducedwithoutpermissionfromCB.
CBhasacentralpositioninthedistributionofe-booksinTheNetherlandsand
Belgium.CBtakescareofdistributionandinvoicesofe-bookstoalle-book
sellers.
10,600,000
smartphone
owners
8,600,000
tablet
owners
7%
1,600,000
e-readers
Retailersarewebshopsandecosystemsthatsell
e-books,andthelibrarywhichlendsoute-books.
3%190
andmanyothers...
retailers
10%356
publishers
2%42,546
titles
devices5
publishersandretailers
none
ecosystems
AdobeDRM
watermark
25.6%
0.5%
72.9%
1%
lesecurity4
PDFePub3ePub2
87%
2.6%
10.4%
leformats
ofthetitlesintheBestseller60are
availablease-bookaswell
88%
e-bookversuspaper
supply
literarynon-ction(320)
fantasy(334)
other
novel(301+302)
thriller(305,330en332)
romance(343)
40%
26%
1%
8%
1%
24%
40%
38%
9%
5%
2%
6%
digital
physical
breakdownof‘literaryction’3
‘2015had
38%more
transactions
than2014.
InQ4,e-book
salesdeclined
ffortherst
time(-1%).’
non-ction(400+600)
travel(500)
educational(000+100+900)
literaryction(300)
management(800)
humandevelopment(700)
children’sbooks(200)
80%
3%
5%
5%
5%
39%
3%
8%
22%
17%
5%
6%
digital
physical
breakdownofgenres3
71.8%physical
28.2%digital
shareofe-booksin
onlinebooksales3
94.3%physical
5.7%digital
shareofe-booksin
totalbooksales3
201520142013201220112010
100
75
50
25
0
83.6%
72.7%
68.8% 69.3%
64.2%
56.7%
averagesuggestedretail
priceofe-books2
20152014
800
600
400
200
0
loans1
quarterly(x1,000)
2015201420132012
800
600
400
200
0
sales
quarterly(x1,000)
sales
thedevelopmentofe-booksintheDutchlanguagearea(Q42015)
e-bookbarometer