Ebook sales to smartphones, tablets and ereaders to reach $9.7 billion by 2016

Juniper Research has released a first edition of a report on mobile content and applications: Mobile Publishing: eBooks, eMagazines & eNewspapers for Smart Devices 2011-2016.

According to the report, the continued growth in the dedicated ebook market, and the growth in the usage of tablets and smartphones, will push annual revenues from ebooks delivered to portable devices to $9.7 billion by 2016, up from $3.2 billion this year.

The report — Mobile Publishing: eBooks, eMagazines & eNewspapers for Smart Devices — found that the increasing demand for tablets means that these devices will account for nearly 30% of all eBook downloads by 2016. In addition to the higher rate of tablet penetration, eBook access on these devices has already been boosted by the launch of leading brand bookstore applications, such as Apple’s iBookStore and Amazon’s Kindle.

Via MarketWatch