Publisher’s Weekly has recently revealed an absolutely astonishing figure for POD books in 2006 and 2007. Here’s its summary:
The production of traditional books rose 1% in 2007, to 276,649 new titles and editions, but the output of on-demand, short run and unclassified titles soared from 21,936 in 2006 to 134,773 last year, according to preliminary figures released Wednesday by R.R. Bowker. The combination of the two categories results in a 39% increase in output to 411,422. Although it has tracked production of on-demand titles in the past, this is the first year the company has broken out the segment to better show the differences in the traditional categories (such as biography, fiction, juvenile) and the on-demand segment.
You can read more of the article HERE.
Back in April sometime, when my life was topsy-turvy, Pulbisher’s Weekly also posted a piece about an upcoming publisher’s event, which presumably would make it evident that this is the year when E-Books finally take off. Something is really afoot!
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Comment by
Ben Eavey
31 May 2008
Hmmm. Well, I’m sure a lot more people are putting their own self-published POD books out there, but are they really selling? I kind of think that most of those 134,773 books are probably selling in single-digit amounts. Maybe I’m wrong.