Re: EPUB usage

I would agree with your general hypothesis, however, tying any more specific sales information into an external communication is going to be impossible for me to provide.

Sorry.

-Rick

From: Bill McCoy <bmccoy@w3.org>
Organization: W3C
Date: Wednesday, June 28, 2017 at 10:27 AM
To: "Johnson, Rick" <Rick.Johnson@ingramcontent.com>, "public-publishing-sc@w3.org" <public-publishing-sc@w3.org>
Cc: 'Karen Myers' <karen@w3.org>
Subject: RE: EPUB usage

Rick this is great info – thanks for sharing. One additional piece of info that would be helpful in characterizing the situation is the % of sales by format esp. if this can be distinguished by newly submitted titles.

I have a hypothesis that titles with small sales are more likely to be EPUB 2 which if true would imply that smaller publishers should be more of a focus of our marketing (logically, and perhaps literally, IBPA more than AAP). But this is just a guess!

--Bill


From: Johnson, Rick [mailto:Rick.Johnson@ingramcontent.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2017 7:19 AM
To: public-publishing-sc@w3.org
Cc: Karen Myers <karen@w3.org>; Bill McCoy <bmccoy@w3.org>
Subject: Re: EPUB usage

A bit of a follow-up on this.  Looking at our sister company CoreSource, we have received:

EPUB 2 from 9430 publishers for a total of 1,004,545 titles
EPUB 2.0.1 from 2133 publishers for a total of 39,779 titles
EPUB 3 from 2117 publishers for a total of 85,480 titles
EUB 3.0.1 from 1013 publishers for a total of 25,272 titles

That’s a Grand Total of 14,693 publishers delivering 1,155,076 EPUB titles.

HOWEVER….

If you just look at deliveries in 2017, there were 2,148 publishers who delivered 40,130 new EPUB 2 files, and 1,018 publishers who delivered 25,737 EPUB 3 files.

And…

If you look at deliveries over the past 12 months, there were 4,403 publishers who delivered 844,270 new EPUB 2 files, and 1,895 publishers who delivered 106,428 EPUB 3 files.

Those EPUB2 publishers need to be a target of our marketing!

-Rick

From: "Johnson, Rick" <Rick.Johnson@ingramcontent.com<mailto:Rick.Johnson@ingramcontent.com>>
Date: Thursday, June 15, 2017 at 8:23 AM
To: "public-publishing-sc@w3.org<mailto:public-publishing-sc@w3.org>" <public-publishing-sc@w3.org<mailto:public-publishing-sc@w3.org>>
Subject: EPUB usage
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Resent-Date: Thursday, June 15, 2017 at 8:23 AM

I’ve shared these numbers with you before (for 2016), but I just ran the 2017 ones, and I thought you would all appreciate them.

-Rick

EPUB vs. PDF usage on the VitalSource platform

In 2016
Top 25 titles: 24 EPUB, 1 PDF
Top 50 titles: 46 EPUB, 4 PDF
Top 100 titles: 77 EPUB, 23 PDF
Top 250 titles: 141 EPUB, 109 PDF
Top 500 titles: 233 EPUB, 267 PDF


In 2017 (to date)
Top 25 titles: 25 EPUB, zero PDF
Top 50 titles: 48 EPUB, 2 PDF
Top 100 titles: 81 EPUB, 19 PDF
Top 250 titles: 159 EPUB, 91 PDF
Top 500 titles: 239 EPUB, 261 PDF