The amount of self-published book titles
available in the marketplace went up 59% between 2011 and 2012, according
to Bowker’s latest self-pubishing report. The report looked at
U.S. ISBN data to identify that there were more than 391,000 books
self-published in 2012. eBooks made up 40 percent of these ISBNs. The report
examined how the self-publishing industry has grown over the past six years,
illustrating a large proliferation of self-published titles in the
marketplace. Amazon’s CreateSpace, Smashwords and Lulu.com led the list
for putting out the most ISBNs of self-published works in the U.S. for both
print & eBook from 2007-2012. For instance, CreateSpace’s output
grew 3355.84% from 2007 to 2012. When broken out between print and eBooks,
CreateSpace led with the highest volume for print books. Smashwords was the top
player for eBooks.
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