Aptaracorp has released its annual survey of ebook production trends, and to mark the event (and to get more publicity) they've come up with a dramatic infographic summarizing how the industry is increasingly turning to ebooks as part of its inventory.
One of the more dramatic statistics states that 31% of ebook publishers produce enhanced ebooks, though only 12% correlate the enhancements with a positive impact on sales. The market for more than simple text remains uncertain.
See below for the graphic, which was created in association with Publishers Weekly.
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"A Man of Parts" by David Lodge (Viking)
Nominator: Christopher Sergio Designer: Jaya Miceli Art Director: Paul Buckley
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Nominator: Rita Marquito Designer: Rita Marquito Art Director: João Bicker Design Firm: FBA. – Ferrand, Bicker & Associados
"Adam and Evelyn" by Ingo Schulze (Alfred A. Knopf)
Nominator: Alfred A. Knopf Designer: Peter Mendelsund Art Director: Carol Carson
"Adventures in the Orgasmatron" by Christopher Turner (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Nominator: Marina Drukman Designer: Marina Drukman Art Director: Marina Drukman Design Firm: Marina Drukman Design
"Bed" by David Whitehouse (Scribner)
"Better By Mistake" by Alina Tugend (Riverhead Books)
Nominator: Rachel Willey Designer: Alex Merto Art Director: Helen Yentus Other Credits: Tal Goretsky
"Black Boy White School" by Brian F. Walker (HarperCollins Children's Books)
Nominator: Erin Fitzsimmons Designer: Erin Fitzsimmons Art Director: Hilary Zarycky Other Credits: Photograph by Brad Wilson/Getty Images
"C" by Tom McCarthy (Vintage Books)
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"Checking In/Checking Out" by Chris Schaberg/Mark Yakich (NO Books)
Nominator: Nancy Bernardo Designer: Nancy Bernardo Art Director: Nancy Bernardo Design Firm: decorative debris
"Contradance" by John Peck (The University of Chicago Press)
Nominator: Jill Shimabukuro Designer: Natalie F. Smith Art Director: Jill Shimabukuro Design Firm: The University of Chicago Press
"Darwin's Finches" Edited, with Commentary, by Kathleen Donohue (The University of Chicago Press)
Nominator: Jill Shimabukuro Designer: Matt Avery Art Director: Jill Shimabukuro Design Firm: The University of Chicago Press
"Death and the Penguin" by Andrey Kurkov (Melville House)
Nominator: Claire Kelley Designer: Christopher King
"Debt" by David Graeber (Melville House)
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"Do the Movies Have a Future" by David Denby (Simon & Schuster)
Nominator: Thomas Ng Designer: Thomas Ng Art Director: Jackie Seow
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"I Belong to This Band, Hallelujah!" by Laura Clawson (The University of Chicago Press)
Nominator: Jill Shimabukuro Designer: Natalie F. Smith Art Director: Jill Shimabukuro Design Firm: The University of Chicago Press
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"In Trouble" by Ellen Levine (Carolrhoda Lab, an imprint of Lerner Publishing Group)
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"Influencing Machine" by Brooke Gladstone / Tom Mayer (W. W. Norton & Company)
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Nominator: Jessica Helfand Designer: Chip Kidd Art Director: Chip Kidd
"Kerouac Series (2011 REPACKAGE)" by Jack Kerouac (Penguin Group (USA))
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"Kwadraat Bladen A series of graphic experiments 1955—74" by Adrian Shaughnessy and Tony Brook (Unit Editions)
Nominator: Adrian Shaughnessy Designer: Claudia Klat Art Director: Tony Brook Design Firm: Spin
"Linguagem e Comunicação (Language and Communication) from the book series Celga" by Paula Valente (Almedina)
Nominator: Rita Marquito Designer: Ana Boavida Art Director: João Bicker Design Firm: FBA. – Ferrand, Bicker & Associados
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Nominator: Stephen Sorrell Designer: Damon Murray, Stephen Sorrell Design Firm: Murray & Sorrell FUEL
"Mensagem de Fernando Pessoa (The Message of Fernando Pessoa)" by Paula Valente (Almedina)
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"My Dyslexia" by Philip Schultz (W. W. Norton & Company)
Nominator: Christopher Sergio Designer: Mark Melnick
"Nom de Plume" by Carmela Ciuraru (Harper Collins)
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"Oliver Sacks paperback repackage (Migrane; Awakenings; The Island of the Colorblind; Uncle Tugnsten; An Anthropologist on Mars; Seeing Voices)" by Oliver Sacks (Vintage)
Nominator: Teddy Blanks Designer: Cardon Webb Art Director: John Gall Design Firm: Vintage/Anchor
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"Orientation and Other Stories" by Daniel Orozco (Faber and Faber)
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Nominator: Jill Shimabukuro Designer: Matt Avery Art Director: Jill Shimabukuro Design Firm: The University of Chicago Press
"Snowdrops" by A.D. Miller (Doubleday)
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"The Bauhaus Group" by Nicholas Fox Weber (Yale University Press)
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"The Enigma of the Aerofoil" by David Bloor (The University of Chicago Press)
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"The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood" by James Gleick (Pantheon)
Nominator: Astrid Stavro Designer: Peter Mendelsund
"The Meaning of Disgust" by Colin McGinn (Oxford University Press)
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"The Old Romantic" by Louise Dean (Riverhead Books)
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