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Old 01-13-2013, 08:28 PM   #40
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This article, by a publishing industry consultant, contains some interesting analysis.

http://www.idealog.com/blog/stats-ar...-our-business/

He thinks that 50% of fiction sales are ebooks, and around 25-35% are online sales of print books, leaving around 30-35% for print books sold in physical stores. I agree that this probably explains the decline in shelf space, especially as nonfiction has also declined in physical store sales, although much less.
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