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.Sales over the past 12 months.Only sales. Through downloads (watermark, Adobe DRM, none) and ecosystems.SouSource: GfK (June 2015).

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

July 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.

6%

10,600,000smartphoneowners

9%

8,600,000tablet owners

7%

1,500,000e-readers

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

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retailers

4%320

publishers

4%38,855

titles

devices5publishers and retailersnoneecosystems

Adobe DRMwatermark

55%

1%

43%

1%

le security4

PDFePub 3ePub 2

86%

2%

12%

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)

40%

7%36%

11%

4%2%

7%

breakdown of ‘literary ction’3

‘Through june25% more e-books were sold than in the same period last yyear.’

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%

41%

3%7%

23%

17%

5%4%

digital

physical

breakdown of genres3

72.4%physical

27.6%digital

share of e-books inonline book sales3

94.5%physical

5.5%digital

share of e-books intotal book sales3

201520142013201220112010

100

75

50

25

0

83.6%

72.7%68.8% 69.3%

64.2%59.5%

average suggested retail price of e-books2

‘At this moment an e-book onaverage is more than 36% cheaper than in 2010.’201520142013201220112010

1,800

1,350

900

450

0

sales1quarterly (x 1,000)

subscriptionsloanssales

salesthe development of e-books in the Dutch language market (Q2 2015)

e-book barometer