Growth and/or shrink percentages are based on gures from the previous infographic (January 2015), unless indicated otherwise.

Loaned titles are loans through Bibliotheek.nl.Sales over the past 12 months.Sales (except ecosystems) over the past 12 months.Only sales, not loans. Through downloads (watermark, DRM, none) and ecosystems.Source: GfK (December 2014).

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5.April 2015This infographic is compiled from data from CB and GfK. Misprints reserved. No part of this publicationmay be reproduced without permission from CB.

CB has a central position in the distribution of e-books in The Netherlands andBelgium. CB takes care of distribution and invoices of e-books to all e-booksellers.

10.000.000smartphoneowners

7.900.000tablet owners

1.400.000e-readers

Retailers are webshops and ecosystems that sell e-books, and the library which lends out e-books.

2%195en vele anderen...

retailers

3%307

publishers

4%37.190

titles

devices5publishers and retailersnoneecosystems

Adobe DRMwatermark

65%1%

33%

1%

le security4

PDFePub 3ePub 2

85%

2%

13%

le formats

of the titles in the Bestseller 60 areavailable as e-book as well

85%

e-book versus paper

supply

literary non-ction (320)fantasy (334)other

novel (301 + 302)thriller (305, 330 en 332)romance (343)

39%

7%37%

11%

4%2%

7%

breakdown of 3003

‘The share ofliterary ction in total sales is twice as big as the average.’

non-ction (400 + 600)travel (500)educational (000 + 100 + 900)

literary ction (300)management (800)human development (700)children’s books (200)

73%

5%

8%

6%6%

1%1%

42%

3%7%

23%

17%

4% 4%digital

physical

breakdown of genres3

73,3%physical

26,7%digital

share of e-books inonline book sales2

94,8%physical

5,2%digital

share of e-books intotal book sales2

‘In Q1 2015 the sales of e-books were 22% higher than the samequarter of the yearbefore.’

20152014

800

600

400

200

0

loaned1quarterly (x 1.000)

201520142013201220112010

800

600

400

200

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soldquarterly (x 1.000)

salesthe development of e-books in the Dutch language market (Q1 2015)

e-books in gures