Loans are loaned titles through Bibliotheek.nl. Based on weighted average of the suggested retail price for e-booksand the weighted average gross price of physical books per year.based on sales over the past 12 months.Only sales. Through downloads (watermark, Adobe DRM, none) and ecosystems.SouSource: GfK (June 2015).

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October 2015This infographic is compiled from data from CB, GfK and BooXtream. Misprints reserved. No part of this publication may 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.

10,600,000smartphoneowners

8,600,000tablet owners

1,500,000e-readers

Retailers are webshops and ecosystemen that selle-books, and the library which lends out e-books.

2%196en vele anderen...

retailers

1%323

publishers

7%41,559

titles

devices5publishers and retailersnoneecosystems

Adobe DRMwatermark

35%

1%63%

1%

le security4

PDFePub 3ePub 2

86.8%

2.5%

10.7%

le formats

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

88%

e-book versus paper

supply

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

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

39%

25%

1%

8%

1%

26%

40%

37%

10%

4%2% 7%

digitaal

fysiek

breakdown of ‘literary ction’3

‘Of all the e-book salesonly one-h is a top 100 title.’

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

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

80%

3%

5%

6%5%

40%

3%8%

21%

17%

5%6%

digital

physical

breakdown of genres3

71.3%physical

28.7%digital

share of e-books inonline book sales3

94.2%physical

5.8%digital

share of e-books intotal book sales3

201520142013201220112010

100

75

50

25

0

83.6%

72.7% 68.8% 69.3%64.2%

57.7%

average suggested retailprice of e-books2

top 100 other

78.2%

21.8%

share of top 100 on total sales

subscriptionsloanssales

201520142013201220112010

2,250

1,500

750

0

sales1quarterly (x 1,000)

salesthe development of e-books in the Dutch language area (Q3 2015)

e-book barometer