With overall ebook sales for most publishers at a point of stasis for now, the Digital Book World conference commissioned Jonathan Nowell at Nielsen Book to provide a closer look at how the rise of ebooks has affected what sells in print form. A number of Nielsen’s data points stand in contrast with popular assumptions. (You can view the full set of data slides here.) Hardcover sales are seen as being most vulnerable to cannibalization by lower-priced ebook editions — but Nowell indicated that hardcover fiction sales have eroded less than trade paperback sales since 2009. Their quiet PubTrack Digital […]
