Traditional publishing houses also need to compete in this oversupplied market of ebooks as well as print books. It is not only a dilemma for indie authors. Who should you use to self-publish and sell your ebooks? It was all so positive when the iPad arrived, but since then, Apple has, in author language, really lost the plot with regard to ebook sales.Īll of these statistics have ramifications for authors. Nook operation to a supermarket chain.Īpple fairs little better in the ebook publishing market.Īfter years of battling, it lost its battle against the DOJ.īut in all honesty, Apple lost interest in ebooks not long after the case started. On top of that, the signs are not very positive when one reads that Barnes & Noble has so little faith in ebooks and its Nook that it has sold its U.K. Smashwords has established itself as the primary aggregator of ebooks in the publishing industry.Įssentially, all ebooks are self-published and aggregated to many book retailers, including Apple, B&N, and Kobo.īut judging from their above numbers, which are less than 10% of Kindle’s catalog, it is just not making much headway. Only Smashwords is open enough to state the number of published ebooks.īut, when you consider that the bulk of self-published titles available on retailers other than Amazon Kindle is aggregated via Smashwords or Draft2Digital, these numbers tell a story. Kobo, Apple iBooks, Barnes & Noble Nook, and Google Play don’t openly advertise the total number they have in their ebook catalogs. Well, it’s all very difficult to know for sure. So how many ebooks do the other major retailers have? The following information was originally published some time ago but has been updated where possible. So take the 6 million I could verify back in mid-2018 and add a million or more for every year after that. My best guess now would be that well over one million new Kindle books per year. Now, without access to definitive data, I can only estimate that 600,000 new ebooks are published every year, at the very least.īut I would be more inclined to think that the number is much, much higher.
In mid-2018, I could check reasonably accurately, and there were over 6 million ebooks in the Kindle store.
It equates to nearly 70 ebooks every hour. It equates to 7,500 new Kindle books per day!īut even at a minimum of 50,000 per month, that means at least 1,670 new Kindle ebooks every day. The conclusion you can draw from this method is that at least 50,000 new Kindle ebooks are published on Amazon every month.īut the number of 30,000 newly published Kindle ebooks in the first four days of a month is telling. I waited for a few weeks and got this result on the fourth day of the following month.
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