The previous year’s ebook sales were significantly lower than they were during the height of the pandemic.
Nielsen BookData reports that digital book sales declined by 10% in 2022, while physical book sales declined by only 3%.
Last year, British consumers purchased 348 million books worth £2.5 billion. This was, however, less than in 2020 and 2021, when lockdowns lifted sales among readers confined to their homes.
Experts in the industry had fretted for years that ebooks would eliminate their paper competitors, but these concerns proved to be unfounded.
Last year, eager consumers purchased self-help and science fiction audiobooks in record numbers. However, growth has slowed following the pandemic’s sales boom, which has been difficult to sustain.
The Sandman Act III by Neil Gaiman and Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before? by Julie Smith were popular audiobooks.
