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22.55 Percent: EBooks' Share Of All US Publishing Revenue In 2012

This habit has more or less 'tipped': ebooks are definitely mainstream now. We spotted this stat today, that some 22.55 percent of all publishing revenue was from ebooks. (Source)

How do we digest this stat? This one is very simple - we had spotted some trends that pointed to this in the last few months - a 70 percent YoY growth in 2012 announced by Jeff Bezos, and a 9.7 billion by 2016 size expected for the industry overall.

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