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Kali Yuga · 04-15-2011, 12:17 PM

Here's the original source for the article: http://www.publishers.org/press/30/

The FT article is a little bit misleading. The categories are broken into "Adult Hardcover, Adult Paperback, Adult Mass Market, Children’s/Young Adult Hardcover, Children’s/Young Adult Paperback." Ebooks are beating these individual categories, to wit:

February 2011:
All Ebooks = $90m
Adult print = $156m
Children's print = $58m
Religious = $48m
Education = $406m
Professional = $46m

So, ebooks clocked in at a little over 11% of sales in February, and likely cuts across all of the above divisions to a certain extent.

04-15-2011, 12:17 PM	#2
Kali Yuga Professional Contrarian Posts: 2,045 Karma: 3289631 Join Date: Mar 2009 Device: Kindle 4 No Touchie	Here's the original source for the article: http://www.publishers.org/press/30/ The FT article is a little bit misleading. The categories are broken into "Adult Hardcover, Adult Paperback, Adult Mass Market, Children’s/Young Adult Hardcover, Children’s/Young Adult Paperback." Ebooks are beating these individual categories, to wit: February 2011: All Ebooks = $90m Adult print = $156m Children's print = $58m Religious = $48m Education = $406m Professional = $46m So, ebooks clocked in at a little over 11% of sales in February, and likely cuts across all of the above divisions to a certain extent.