Book Industry Statistics from 2011
57 books are purchased per second almost 5 million books per day
6% of the book market account for e-book sales
28 million US adults are e-book readers, double from 2010
4.86 billion total trade sales
8.32% of total trade sales are e-book sales
$3 billion e-book sales are predicted by 2015
143 Amazon Kindle books are sold for every 100 Amazon hardcover books
47% of market share for e-book readers go to Amazon Kindle
95,000 unites of Kindle Fire were pre-ordered on the first day it was available
15% of readers stop purchasing printed books upon owning an e-reader
53% of readers say they read more now with the e-reader
2 billion books, 350 million magazines, and 24 billion newspapers are purchased in the US each year
68 million tons of paper and paperboard are used in the industry
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