The user expenditure on digital comics amounted to around 519.9 billion Japanese yen in fiscal year 2022, which made comics the largest segment within the e-book market in Japan. Other textual materials and magazines made up a much smaller part of the e-book market.
User expenditure on e-books in Japan in fiscal year 2022, by segment (in billion Japanese yen)
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E-books in FranceImpress. (August 10, 2023). User expenditure on e-books in Japan in fiscal year 2022, by segment (in billion Japanese yen) [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved April 26, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/758921/japan-e-book-sales-value-by-type/
Impress. "User expenditure on e-books in Japan in fiscal year 2022, by segment (in billion Japanese yen)." Chart. August 10, 2023. Statista. Accessed April 26, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/758921/japan-e-book-sales-value-by-type/
Impress. (2023). User expenditure on e-books in Japan in fiscal year 2022, by segment (in billion Japanese yen). Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: April 26, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/758921/japan-e-book-sales-value-by-type/
Impress. "User Expenditure on E-books in Japan in Fiscal Year 2022, by Segment (in Billion Japanese Yen)." Statista, Statista Inc., 10 Aug 2023, https://www.statista.com/statistics/758921/japan-e-book-sales-value-by-type/
Impress, User expenditure on e-books in Japan in fiscal year 2022, by segment (in billion Japanese yen) Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/758921/japan-e-book-sales-value-by-type/ (last visited April 26, 2024)
User expenditure on e-books in Japan in fiscal year 2022, by segment (in billion Japanese yen) [Graph], Impress, August 10, 2023. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/758921/japan-e-book-sales-value-by-type/