We don't have any hard data for self-publishers. We only have limited data for trade publishers.
According to the monthly American Association of Publishers (AAP) figures, there was a huge e-boom in which began in November last year and carried right through to February.
There was a similar boom for print which stopped dead at Christmas, as usual.
E-books would seem to be seasonal just like print books. The extended "season" of e-books will only be a feature of the market at an early stage. It's being skewed right now by new entrants - people buying e-readers for the first time and loading up their devices. Once the device market is saturated in a few years, it seems likely to me that the seasonality of e-books could well begin to reflect that of print books.
According to the monthly American Association of Publishers (AAP) figures, there was a huge e-boom in which began in November last year and carried right through to February.
There was a similar boom for print which stopped dead at Christmas, as usual.
E-books would seem to be seasonal just like print books. The extended "season" of e-books will only be a feature of the market at an early stage. It's being skewed right now by new entrants - people buying e-readers for the first time and loading up their devices. Once the device market is saturated in a few years, it seems likely to me that the seasonality of e-books could well begin to reflect that of print books.
