Washington: Sales of ebooks brought in some $2.07 billion for the US publishing industry in 2011, a survey revealed on Wednesday.
The data from the Association of American Publishers and the Book Industry Study Group said ebooks grew from $869 million in 2010, AFP reported.
Last year, ebooks accounted for some six percent of overall publishing revenues.
The number of ebooks also doubled to 388 million, and represented 15.5 percent of total books sold in the “trade sector,” meaning fiction and non-fiction for adults and children.
Still, ebooks have not overtaken the traditional hardcover or paperback, which represented the bulk of publishers’ net revenue at $11.1 billion for 2011.
Overall sales for the publishing industry managed a slight increase for the year of 0.5 percent at $13.97 billion.
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