Quick Answer
How many books are on Amazon in 2025?
Amazon successfully grew its book-selling business in less than a decade with an estimated 50 million book titles sold on the e-commerce platform – a number accounting for both hard and electronic copies.
Tracking a parcel with fresh reads from Amazon is a guilty pleasure we are all fond of.
The smell of a new book is more intoxicating than Dior’s J’Adore, at least for bookworms.
Truly, Amazon is a go-to book source for everyone, be it a hardcopy title or e-book.
How many books are on Amazon today?
Tune in until the end to find out interesting facts about Amazon books.
How Many Books Are On Amazon?
Starting as a garage project, Jeff Bezos successfully turned his vision into the biggest bookstore in the world.
Today, an estimated 50 million book titles are sold on the Amazon e-commerce platform – a number accounting for both hard and electronic copies.
An article published by TechCrunch in 2014 claims there were 3.4 million titles sold on the site at that time.
This means Amazon successfully grew its book-selling business in less than a decade to make it where it is now.
Beginnings of Amazon
Like Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak’s garage project which turned out to be the biggest tech company of all time, Jeff Bezos started from nothing.
Bezos used his parents’ life savings worth $250,000 and $10,000 of his own to fund his new project in 1994. He initially listed 20 products that could be easily marketed and sold online.
He later narrowed to list to five: compact disks, hardware, software, videos, and books and went for the latter.
First Book Ever Sold on Amazon
The first book ever sold on Amazon online bookstore is a Douglas Hofstadter title called “Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models of Mechanisms of Thought” on July 16, 1995.
The following months were stellar, and Amazon became an instant hit.
By its second month in business, the bookstore giant is already catering across 50 states in the United States, with $20,000 in average sales per week.
Amazon Books During the Pandemic
The pandemic rekindled people’s relationship with the good ol’ books.
With this, Amazon welcomed a sudden influx of book sales, selling out 89 million copies during the year.
The enterprise had to hire 175,000 new permanent and contractual workers to accommodate order requests during the year.
Amazon Publishing
Due to its popularity, Amazon launched its own publishing venture, Amazon Publishing, in 2009.
Today, the platform is home to 1,000 new titles on its roster every year, with an average selling price of $6 for e-books.
Amazon is also a favorite of self-published authors. In 2018, its self-publishing division CreateSpace dominated the market with 1.4 million copies listed during the year.
A survey conducted by Statista shows Amazon remains ahead of its game compared to competitors. Take a look at this data on its market share per country in 2022.
- United Kingdom – 71% of all book sales in the country came from Amazon during the year
- United States – 67% of all book sales in the country came from Amazon during the year
- Italy – 66% of all book sales in the country came from Amazon during the year
- Germany – 62% of all book sales in the country came from Amazon during the year
- Spain – 59% of all book sales in the country came from Amazon during the year
- Austria – 56% of all book sales in the country came from Amazon during the year
- France – 53% of all book sales in the country came from Amazon during the year
- Switzerland – 33% of all book sales in the country came from Amazon during the year
Amazon Bestsellers
Here are the current top 10 bestsellers on Amazon:
- Spare by Prince Harry The Duke of Sussex
- Atomic Habits by James Clear
- It Starts With Us by Colleen Hoover
- It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover
- Verity by Colleen Hoover
- The Light We Carry by Michelle Obama
- Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
- The Body Keeps The Score by Bessel van der Kolk M.D.
- The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene
- The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Conclusion
50 million – that is how many books are on Amazon today.
The Bezos-founded empire continues to dominate the hardcopy and e-book market, thanks to its advantage as an e-commerce giant.
Starting as a garage project, Amazon is one of the outliers in the 21st century’s business industry.
