E-book barometer Flanders Q3 2015

Growth and/or shrink percentages are based on gures from the previous infographic (August 2015), unless indicated otherwise.

These are sales measured over the last 12 months, specically for Flanders.Based on weighted average of the suggested retailprice for e-books and the weighted average gross price of physical books per year, for the entire Dutch-speaking region.These are sales measured over the last 12 months, for the entire Dutch-speaking region.Subject to sales through online stores (watermark, Adobe DRM, none) and ecosystems over the last 12 months, for the entire Dutch-speaking region.Specically for Flanders. Source: GfK (October 2015).

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October 2015This infographic is compiled from data from CB, Boek.be and GfK. Misprints reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced without permission from CB.

CB has a central position in the distribution of e-books in The Netherlands and Flanders (Belgium). CB takes care of distributionand invoices of e-books to all e-book sellers.

Boek.be is the umbrella association of the Flemish booktrade. Together with their members - publishers and booksellers - they do everything possible to promote and to support books as widely as possible.

5%

4,110,000tabletowners

8%

277,000e-readers

Retailers are webshops, like Acco and Fnac, and ecosystemen, likeStandaard Boekhandel, iBooks and Kobo, that sell e-books.

2%196and many others...

retailers

1%323

publishers

7%41,559

titles

devices5publishers and retailersnoneecosystems

Adobe DRMwatermark

35%

1%63%

1%

le security4

PDFePub 3ePub 2

86.8%

2.5%

10.7%

le formats

of the titles are also available as e-book

33%

e-book versus paper

supply

literary non-ction (320)fantasy (334)other

novel (301 + 302)thriller (305, 330 en 332)romance (343)

39%

25%

1%

8%

1%

26%

40%

37%

10%

4%2% 7%

digital

physical

breakdown of ‘literary ction’3

non-ction (400 + 600)travel (500)educational (000 + 100 + 900)

literary ction (300)management (800)human development (700)children’s books (200)

80%

3%

5%

6%5%

40%

3%8%

21%

17%

5%6%

digital

physical

breakdown of genres3

201520142013201220112010

100

75

50

25

0

83.6%

72.7%68.8% 69.3%

64.2%57.7%

average suggested retail price of e-books2

75.0%physical

25.0%digital

share of e-books inonline book sales1

96.6%physical

3.4%digital

share of e-books intotale book sales1

The NetherlandsFlanders

80.6%

19.4%

Sales Flanders1547,167 copies

Flanders vs. The Netherlands1

salesthe development of e-books in Flanders (Q3 2015)e-book barometer