http://paidcontent.org/2012/06/12/wh...-like-by-2016/
Quote:
New data from Pricewaterhouse Coopers’ Global Entertainment and Media Outlook projects that e-books will make up 50 percent of the U.S. trade book market by 2016.
By 2016, PwC expects, “e-books will account for half of total spending on consumer books” in the U.S. and the total U.S. consumer book market (print + digital) will be worth $21 billion, up from $19.5 billion in 2011.
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North America projection
2009: $500 mil
2010: $1,200 mil
2011: $2,696 mil ------out of $19.5 billion book market (print+ digital)
2012: $4,326 mil
2013: $5,992 mil
2014: $7,653 mil
2015: $9,324 mil
2016; $10,905 mil------out of $21 billion book market (print + digital)
The link also has a chart that show world-wide trend (can't link to it because it's not an image). Worth seeing.