http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/b...al-divide.html
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For fiction, the digital-print split hovered consistently around the 50/50 mark. With excitement over the film adaptation prompting renewed interest in the title, 48% of sales of The Great Gatsby went to e-books in the first six months of 2013. The digital-to-print breakdowns for The Best of Me by Nicholas Sparks and The Innocent by David Baldacci were right down the middle, with 50% of sales of each title coming from e-books. The Third Wheel, the seventh in Jeff Kinney’s illustration-heavy Diary of a Wimpy Kid storybook series, presents a notable exception to the pattern, with sales skewing toward physical books. Two Dr. Seuss books—Oh, The Places You’ll Go and Green Eggs and Ham—were among the top 20 bestselling print books through June, but those titles are available in digital form only as apps, not as e-books.
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So, non-fiction is still 75% print, and illustrated books are probably even more than that. Are people currently seeing a difference in the relative sizes of fiction v. nonfiction v. illustrated book sections at bookstores?