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Re:Publishers Determined to Kill E-Books by ikeboy on Sunday December 29, 2019 @10:18AM (#21906273)
The overall market for books is roughly the same as that for music and movies. Quick googling says $27 billion for books, $16 billion for music, $41 billion for movies in the US. Not digging in to those numbers but if we assume they're roughly in the correct ballpark then it's all similar market sizes.
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Re:Publishers Determined to Kill E-Books by brianwawok on Sunday December 29, 2019 @10:19AM (#21906280)
Is that including stuff like textbooks?
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Re:Publishers Determined to Kill E-Books by CriticalCathed on Sunday December 29, 2019 @11:26AM (#21906690)
It does. It includes all publishers and academic journals. I would wager a huge portion of that 27 billion is textbooks in k-12 & university, and journals; though, I haven't been able to find the raw data.

[0] https://www.bookstats.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/BOOKSTA... (page 1, bottom)

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