- Increase in smartphone visits to national news websites compared to last year: 52%
- Increase in smartphone visits to retail websites compared to last year: 31%
- Increase in smartphone visits to media/entertainment websites compared to last year: 8%
- Year-on-year growth in digital book sales in Latin America in 2016: 110%
- Year-on-year growth in digital book sales in Spain in 2016: 41%
- Percentage of Spain’s overall book market represented by ebooks in 2015: 5
- Percentage of Spain’s overall book market represented by ebooks in 2016: 8–10
- Percentage of Spain’s ebook market driven by self-published authors: 5–7
- Percentage of Spanish publishers’ digital sales happening in Spain: 49
- Percentage of Spanish publishers’ digital sales happening in Latin America: 34
- Percentage of Spanish publishers’ digital sales happening in US: 11
- Percentage of Spanish publishers’ digital sales happening in Europe: 5
Source: Smartphones Are Driving All Growth in Web Traffic; Dosdoce and Bookwire Chart “Soaring” Ebook Sales in the Spanish Markets
Jane Friedman has spent her entire career working in the publishing industry, with a focus on business reporting and author education. Established in 2015, her newsletter The Bottom Line provides nuanced market intelligence to thousands of authors and industry professionals; in 2023, she was named Publishing Commentator of the Year by Digital Book World.
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