Market revenue in 2024 | USD 5.7 billion |
Market revenue in 2030 | USD 7.4 billion |
Growth rate | 4.6% (CAGR from 2025 to 2030) |
Largest segment | Mystery |
Fastest growing segment | Mystery |
Historical data | 2018 - 2023 |
Base year | 2024 |
Forecast period | 2025 - 2030 |
Quantitative units | Revenue in USD billion |
Market segmentation | Science, Historical, Mystery, Fantasy, Literary, Contemporary /Realistic, Romance, Educational, Comic, Others (classics, biographies) |
Key market players worldwide | News Corp Class A, Paramount Global Class A, Pearson PLC, Scholastic Corp, Penguin Random House, Macmillan, Marvel Entertainment, Morris Publishing Group, IDW Publishing, Hachette Book Group |
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Mystery was the largest segment with a revenue share of 17.54% in 2024. Horizon Databook has segmented the France books market based on science, historical, mystery, fantasy, literary, contemporary /realistic, romance, educational, comic, others (classics, biographies) covering the revenue growth of each sub-segment from 2018 to 2030.
In France, digital sales are a bright spot for the books market, which represented 8.42% of a publisher’s revenue in 2018. At the same time, offline sales of books witnessed a decline. The Syndicat national de l’édition in France reported that in 2019, just 8.7% of publisher revenue came from digital.
While this figure might be considered conservative, digital sales amounted to EUR 232.3 million of the total revenue of EUR 2.6 billion that year. About 70.5% of that was from the professional and academic arena, with trade fiction amounting to 13% of total digital sales.
Digital non-fiction amounted to 6% at EUR 14.3 million. Another point to be noted was that these numbers were derived from data supplied by only 160 publishing houses, so, sales from many small presses and independent authors were not part of the official sales. This shows the immense scope the digital platform possesses.
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