This Is How We Read In UK

= THIS IS HOW WE READ IN THE UK WHAT DO WE READ? TOP-SELLING FICTION EBOOKS IN THE UK: TOP-SELLING HARDBACK FICTION BOOKS IN THE UK: FIFTY SHADES OF GREY EL James MAKE ME (JACK REACHER 20) ACK GREY MAKE ME LLERS ELJAMES -Lee Child BES) FIFTY SHADES DARKER IGE THE ICE TWINS -S.K. Tremayne TWINS - EL James GONE GIRL - Gillian Flynn THE TEA PLANTER'S WIFE GILLIAN FEYNN -Dinah Jefferies HOW DO WE READ THEM? £2.2bn 2$ £300m 43.7m 13.4m KINDLES SOLD OF US BOUGHT AN AMAZON KINDLE PRINT BOOKS 2013 EBOOKS 2013 Kindle Experts estimate a total of 43.7m Kindles have been sold worldwide, with 13.4m being sold in 2011 alone – that year's Christmas was dubbed 'Kindle Christmas'. In 2013, £2.2bn was spent in the UK alone on print books, compared to just £300m on eBooks in the same year. The 2014 BESTSELLER LIST for print Children's books have seen a rise across both print and eBook to £349m in 2014, a rise of 11%. The 2014 bestseller list for print is also dominated with Children's £349m 2014 books, with seven out of ten titles aimed at children and young people. PRINT AND EBOOKS HOW MUCH IS THE INDUSTRY WORTH? £563m REVENUE PRINT COMBINED REVENUE 5% FALL 11% UP £3.3bn REVENUE EBOOK £2.7bn eBook revenues increased by 11% to £563m Print revenues fell The combined revenue by 5% to £2.7bn of UK publishers fell by 2% in 2014 to £3.3bn ... READING FACT EBooks are the least likely form of digital purchase to be pirated, in comparison to Film, TV, Video Games, Music and Computer Software. WHERE DO PEOPLE READ THE MOST? THE MOST WELL-READ TOWNS/CITIES OVERALL IN THE UK FOR EBOOKS ARE: The top 3 countries who buy the UK's books: WE BUY A LOT OF BOOKS, WHO BUYS THEM FROM US? Dunfermline QATAR VIETNAM RUSSIA The top 3 Chorley Dòncaster countries the UK buys books from: Spalding BUT WHO DO WE BUY FROM? Huntingdon Rochester Sevenoaks Chichester Truro Newton Abbot • GREECE • UAE NETHERLANDS E C= At Christmas, 6.47% of orders we process are books, making up 2.84% of all packages sent within the UK. . READING FACT SOURCES: - Amazon.co.uk - The Publishers Association - Nielson - ParcelHero - http://www.whsmith.co.uk/chart/books/fiction-02x08974 - http://www.stylist.co.uk/books/county-named-romance-capital-north-read-books-fiction-uk-towns-revealed-fifty-shades-kindle - http://the-digital-reader.com/2015/07/23/new-survey-shows-ebook-buyers-in-the-uk-outnumber-pirates-by-fourteen-to-one/ - http://www.stylist.co.uk/books/county-named-romance-capital-north-read-books-fiction-uk-towns-revealed-fifty-shades-kindle http://www.thebookseller.com/futurebook/what-we-have-learned-e-books-2014 - http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/may/08/golden-age-of-uk-childrens-books-bucks-falling-sales-and-print-runs parcelhero www.parcelhero.com BLACK