State of the book [infographic]

This is the most comprehensive infographic about books (and how they evolve in digital times) I’ve ever seen. It was created by good folks from RetailMeNot. Big thanks for putting together so much useful info from different sources into one slick and big picture!

Big picture about the state of the book. This is what you’ll get after you go through the infographic.

I found this masterpiece in VentureBeat’s post Print is dying: E-readers start slaughtering print book sales (infographic). This is getting really irritating, all those references to invasion, flood, killing and death. Ebooks are books. They’re part of the same organism, and the only thing they lack is a smell of a paper.

I don’t see any slaughter in the infographic itself. Ebook sales continue to grow, that’s true, and we should be happy. In 2010 total trade sales (print books and ebooks) were $4,864,000,000. Ebooks sales were $441,000,000 (2,6 times higher than a year before). It’s 8% of total. I can’t see death of print here.

We should put attention to ebooks, because readers are migrating to digital world and it’s good to make sure a book follows them.

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Via VentureBeat