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A report on publishing-industry net revenues for the first third of 2018 has been released by the Association of American Publishers. The report's findings are consistent with what the AAP has been reporting for a little while now: e-books are down by 3.8% over the same period in 2017, while downloaded audiobooks are up 36.1% (physical audiobooks are, unsurprisingly, down 11.4%, because there aren't many people buying CDs and cassette tapes anymore).
AAP reports, while including net revenues from about 1,100 publishers, however, do not include Kindle Unlimited, Amazon Publishing, or Kindle Direct Publishing figures. Although Amazon does not report its book publishing figures, an Amazon spokesperson says that "A mazon’s US and worldwide Kindle book sales grew in 2017, and continue to grow in 2018 , with particular strength in Kindle Unlimited, Amazon Publishing, and independent publishing."
Kindle Unlimited, which is exactly what it sounds like, includes books from a variety of publishers, while Amazon Publishing is, of course, the company's own imprint, and KDP is a program for authors looks to self-publish their works.
