Ebooks are Helping the Book Industry

There's been a lot of hand-wringing over the future of the book industry, but reports of its demise are greatly exaggerated: Yahoo! Finance has a great article on how the industry is actually growing, thanks in part to ebook sales. According to the Association of American Publishers, US book publishers enjoyed revenues of $15 billion in 2012, an increase of 14% from 2008. Although print book sales shrank 8% in that time frame, ebook sales grew $68 million to $3 billion. Clearly, ebooks are making up a bigger portion of the pie. 

If you're in the market for a new reader or tablet, the Green Bay Press Gazette has a piece on which is right for you: a simple e-reader or a full tablet. 

For you gamers out there, Humble Bundle will be adding ebooks to their bundles. Humble Bundle has been selling video game bundles at whatever prices users choose, letting them split the price between Humble Bundle, the publisher, and a charitable organization. Story Bundle, which we've posted on before, adopted a similar pricing strategy for ebooks. Now Humble Bundle is getting into the book game. Their plan is to offer regular ebook and audiobook bundles along with their usual game bundles.