There have been reports from both the USA and the UK on the decline in e-book sales and the ‘resurgence’ of print, but, as usual, the Anglo-American situation of members of the respective publishers’ associations, is not repeated in other parts of the world.
Here’s an interesting example of that from Romania:
http://www.business-review.eu/news/survey-in-2017-1-in-2-readers-chose-audiobooks-and-e-books-152549
If that figure of 50% of book sales being made up of e-books and audio books is correct, it must be one of the highest proportions in the world, if not the highest.
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My guess is that there is no decline in ebook sales at all – ebooks are just flying below the radar of clasical publishers and librarians. Here are some usefull data: http://authorearnings.com/
That’s certainly true for a lot of self-published and Amazon-published stuff, I’m sure, Miha. The ‘official’ statistics are never complete, as Author Earnings has shown on more than one occasion.