The bar chart compares the percentage of people that either bought an e-book or a printed book across

8 countries in 2021 while the table contrasts the sales of the two types of books in the surveyed
countries during the same period.

Overall, Germany saw the least and most purchases in e-books and printed books respectively.
Additionally, the buyers and sales of printed books greatly outnumbered e-books’.

Specifically, the number of Germans who preferred printed books were significantly higher than that of
e-books by a ratio of five to one, standing at 58.3 and 10.8 percent respectively. Similarly but less
strikingly, Spain’s statistics on purchases also showed prevalence towards printed books as e-books saw
less buyers by around 3 times.

Other countries witnessed less dominance of printed books as the ratio of buyers is down to about two
to one. Interestingly, China had the most even distribution between two kinds of books as e-books’
readers exceeded two thirds of the proportion of printed books’, at 26.1 and 33 percent respectively.

Another point to note is that although Germany had the least buyers of e-books by percentage of
population, the United Kingdom had the worst sales in 2021. Other than that, sales’ figures of the two
categories showed similar comparisons to that of the bar chart.

The charts compares the percentage of people that either bought an e-book or a printed book and
contrasts the following sales across eight countries in 2021.

China also took the first place in sales despite having a lower percentage of customers.