U.S. Digital Publishing Industry - Statistics & Facts
As more and more people go online, the digital publishing industry has grown to keep up with the latest technology. As a result, digital media revenue hit almost 30 billion U.S. dollars in the United States in 2015, more than double that in China and almost six times the amount in the United Kingdom. Gaming occupies the biggest space within the U.S. digital media market and revenue within this sector amounted to almost 11 billion U.S. dollars in 2015, expecting to rising further to 13.5 billion U.S. dollars by 2021. The video on demand sector generated revenue of just over 9 billion U.S. dollars in 2015 and is also expected to steadily increase to almost 11.5 billion U.S. dollars by 2021.
Whereas before people were reading paper books and magazine, they are now turning to e-books and e-magazines. In a 2017 survey, 20 percent of respondents stated that they read more e-books than print books, and a further 23 percent said that they read both equal. The average revenue per user from e-books hit 57 U.S. dollars in 2015 and is expected to grow to over 60 U.S. dollars by 2021. Similarly, the average revenue per user from e-magazines is expected to grow from 28.76 U.S. dollars to 30.91 U.S. dollars in the same timeframe.
However, the e-book market is expected to stay relatively steady in the coming years with only a small increase in revenue projected. In contrast, the revenue generated from the e-Paper industry is forecast to more than double between 2015 and 2021 from just over 1 billion U.S. dollars to 2.1 billion U.S. dollars. As a result, forecasts predict that the digital publishing industry as a whole will generate revenue of almost 8.7 billion U.S. dollars in the United States in 2021.
Digital publishing in the U.S. - Important statistics
- 1. Market overview
+Digital Market Outlook: e-publishing revenue in the U.S. 2015-2021- +Digital Market Outlook: readers of e-publishing products in the U.S. 2015-2021
- +Digital Market Outlook: e-publishing ARPU in the U.S. 2015-2021
- Digital media - trends 2015
- Digital media - challenges 2016
- Digital media - revenue sources 2016
- 2. Market leaders
- Print publishers: digital audience growth in the U.S. 2015
- +Leading print media websites in the U.S. 2016
- +Leading print media websites in the U.S. 2014, by desktop visits
- U.S. market share of leading TV websites 2016
- Most-followed media publishers on social media in the U.S. 2016
- +Top media publishers on social media in the U.S. 2016, by user engagement
- +Engagement share of voice of U.S. brands 2016, by industry
- 3. E-books
- +E-book sales revenue in the U.S. 2008-2018
- +U.S. consumer spending on individual e-books April 2017
- +U.S. consumers expenses per e-book April 2017
- +E-book unit sales in the U.S. 2010-2016
- +Adult nonfiction books sales in the U.S. 2016, by genre
- +Amazon book market share in the U.S. 2013-2015, by format
- +Humble Bundle: e-book revenue 2014-2015
- +E-book publishing penetration in the U.S. 2015
- E-readers targeted by U.S. e-book publishers 2015
- +Book sales distribution in the U.S. 2013-2014, by format
- +E-book publishing in the U.S. 2016, by genre
- +Quality of e-books in the U.S. 2015
- 4. E-magazines
- +U.S. periodical publishing revenue 2010-2015, by media type
- +Magazine ad spend in the U.S. 2013-2018, by platform
- Digital magazine format preference in the U.S. 2015
- +U.S. magazine audience 2014-2017 by platform
- +Magazines with largest online audience in the U.S. 2017
- Number of magazine issues read per person in the U.S. 2015-2016, by platform
- 5. E-newspapers
- +U.S. newspaper publishing revenue 2010-2015, by media type
- Digital and print advertising revenue of U.S. newspapers 2003-2014
- +Digital newspaper reach in the U.S. 2015, by age & gender
- +Newspaper audience in the U.S. 2010-2014, by platform
- +Digital newspaper audience in the U.S. 2015, by device
- +New York Times Company: digital news subscribers Q1 2014 - Q2 2017
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