In Publishers Weekly Jim Milliot reports that Online Retailers, E-books Gained in 2012 in the US, as, for example:
Online retailers, led by Amazon, accounted for 44% of sales in 2012, up from 39% in 2011. The gains made by online retailers came at the expense of bookstore chains, whose market share fell to 19%, from 26% in 2011.Amazing, too, that:
E-books captured 11% of all book spending last year, up from 7% in 2011, Kulo reported, while e-books accounted for 22% of units in 2012, up from 14% the prior year.And a perhaps unexpected side-effect -- and particularly worrisome phenomenon (which I 'd love to see some studies on):
As consumers buy more e-books they also tend to buy more print books from the same outlet -- a trend that has cemented Amazon's position as the country's largest booksellers,