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) andecosystems.SouSource: GfK (December 2015).

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

January 2016This 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.

10,600,000smartphoneowners

8,600,000tabletowners

7%

1,600,000e-readers

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

3%190and many others...

retailers

10%356

publishers

2%42,546

titles

devices5publishers and retailersnoneecosystems

Adobe DRMwatermark

25.6%

0.5%

72.9%

1%

le security4

PDFePub 3ePub 2

87%

2.6%

10.4%

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)

40%

26%

1%

8%

1%

24%

40%

38%

9%

5%2%6%

digital

physical

breakdown of ‘literary ction’3‘2015 had 38% more transactions than 2014.In Q4, e-book sales declined ffor the rst time (-1%).’

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%

5%5%

39%

3%8%

22%

17%

5%6%

digital

physical

breakdown of genres3

71.8%physical

28.2%digital

share of e-books inonline book sales3

94.3%physical

5.7%digital

share of e-books intotal book sales3

201520142013201220112010

100

75

50

25

0

83.6%

72.7% 68.8% 69.3%64.2%

56.7%

average suggested retail price of e-books2

20152014

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600

400

200

0

loans1quarterly (x 1,000)

2015201420132012

800

600

400

200

0

salesquarterly (x 1,000)

salesthe development of e-books in the Dutch language area (Q4 2015)

e-book barometer