Top Five Kindle E-Books In 2013 Demonstrate Rising Popularity Of The Format

Online, April 17, 2013 (Newswire.com) - From brochures to marketing, paperbacks to everyday reading, just about every title these days can be read in Kindle format. The recent top five Kindle e-books on Amazon.com is a clear indicator that readers are using their tablets and mobile devices more frequently for enjoying a book. Number one on the list is Safe Haven, a romance/suspense novel by Nicholas Sparks. Initially published in September 2010, it as at the top of the list on Amazon today.

Hopeless, a romance/fiction book by Colleen Hoover, tells the story of two people who embark on a journey and learn life lessons. It is positioned at number two, while the suspense story, Gone girl: A Novel by Gillian Flynn is featured at the number three spot. Rounding out the top five is a romance/mystery and suspense novel, Wait for Me by Elisabeth Naughton at number four and Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, a story about a girl with hidden powers.

The top five Kindle e-books on Amazon.com prove that mainstream reading materials are fueling the growth of electronic publishing. Everything from product manuals to marketing brochures and business literature are being published electronically, but book sales are on the rise solely because of titles in popular categories available in electronic format. The Association of American Publishers (AAP) found that book sales rose by 6.2% in 2012, with e-books accounting for 23% of all sales. By comparison, digital books accounted for 0.05% of the total book sales in 2002.

Both adult and children's fiction markets saw significant increases in sales from 2011 to 2012. Adult fiction and nonfiction e-books accounted for about $1.3 billion in sales, rising over 30% from 2011. Totaling up all of the AAP's categories, e-book sales increased 41% last year.

The trend is in part because of popular e-readers. Examples are the Amazon Kindle and Apple's iPad, which have become widely popular and have added to the convenience of reading e-books anywhere. These are easy to load, with less to carry around, so it is not uncommon to see someone reading a book on an iPad or other kind of tablet. Some signs indicate slowing growth, but most industry experts expect e-books to remain a formidable force in the publishing industry.

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