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Loans are loaned titles through Bibliotheek.nl. Based on weighted average of the suggested retail price for e-booksand the weighted average gross price of physical books per year. Based on sales over the past 12 months.Only sales. Through downloads (watermark, Adobe DRM, none) andecosystems.SouSource: GfK (December 2015).
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Growth and/or shrink percentages are based on gures from the previousiinfographic (October 2015), unless indicated otherwise.
January 2016This infographic is compiled from data from CB and GfK. Misprints reserved. No part of this publicationmay be reproduced without permission from CB.
CB has a central position in the distribution of e-books in The Netherlands andBelgium. CB takes care of distribution and invoices of e-books to all e-booksellers.
10,600,000smartphoneowners
8,600,000tabletowners
7%
1,600,000e-readers
Retailers are webshops and ecosystems that sell e-books, and the library which lends out e-books.
3%190and many others...
retailers
10%356
publishers
2%42,546
titles
devices5publishers and retailersnoneecosystems
Adobe DRMwatermark
25.6%
0.5%
72.9%
1%
le security4
PDFePub 3ePub 2
87%
2.6%
10.4%
le formats
of the titles in the Bestseller 60 areavailable as e-book as well
88%
e-book versus paper
supply
literary non-ction (320)fantasy (334)other
novel (301 + 302)thriller (305, 330 en 332)romance (343)
40%
26%
1%
8%
1%
24%
40%
38%
9%
5%2%6%
digital
physical
breakdown of ‘literary ction’3‘2015 had 38% more transactions than 2014.In Q4, e-book sales declined ffor the rst time (-1%).’
non-ction (400 + 600)travel (500)educational (000 + 100 + 900)
literary ction (300)management (800)human development (700)children’s books (200)
80%
3%
5%
5%5%
39%
3%8%
22%
17%
5%6%
digital
physical
breakdown of genres3
71.8%physical
28.2%digital
share of e-books inonline book sales3
94.3%physical
5.7%digital
share of e-books intotal book sales3
201520142013201220112010
100
75
50
25
0
83.6%
72.7% 68.8% 69.3%64.2%
56.7%
average suggested retail price of e-books2
20152014
800
600
400
200
0
loans1quarterly (x 1,000)
2015201420132012
800
600
400
200
0
salesquarterly (x 1,000)
salesthe development of e-books in the Dutch language area (Q4 2015)
e-book barometer
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