It's a slow transition but digital continues to rise.

Data collected by research firm Kantar Worldpanel provided to MCV shows how UK consumers enjoyed various forms of entertainment – in terms of units – in the 12-week period ending May 11th 2014. 

Physical books still command the largest market share, with a huge 25.7 per cent of UK residents buying them. This isn’t that far ahead of digital music, which takes up 19.3 per cent.

Physical games make up a mere 1.9 per cent of the market, a decline of 8.2 per cent year-on-year. 

Unsurprisingly, it is digital formats that are largely on the rise. Digital video grew 108.7 per cent year-on-year, dwarfing digital video games, which only rose 29.3 per cent. Physical games, by contrast, fell 8.2 per cent year-on-year. 

But the biggest decline of all is physical video rental. This will be down to the closure of Blockbuster.

This data was compiled by Kantar from its research panel of 15,000 consumers.

http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/games-vs-video-vs-music-vs-books/0135765

It's a nice show of trends however... less than 4% of people play games, digital or physical? Considering in the UK gaming is the biggest entertainment industry (based on money), that 4% are spending a lot.

I don't think, neither hope, that physical books will become less common in the future.

Wait? Physical books rose 19% and digital books fell 9.4%? Hell yeah!

I think the bar chart has a mistake, shouldn't that increase be in digital books?
Also doubt that only 4% play games. Who is then playing all those Candy Crush/Temple Run/2048 games?

EDIT: And 33% read books? I'm sure that more people hasn't seen a book in years, let alone read it.

Or maybe I'm just reading the numbers wrong.

I am into my books, have a big collection of physical books of all sorts and I Iike everything there is to like about a physical book. However I recently got a kobo hd, main reason was to cut back on the amount of space that a physical collection can take up. Also portability, being able to take one item (the kobo) and have your entire book collection is amazing. I am never going to look back now, trying to get every book I have in a digital format is going to be hard, still the hardest thing is chucking out the books, I have managed 3 so far! Just doesn't seem right. Lol 

It says physical books 2 times. Which one is digital?

On the pie chart digital books is in red, as in "decreased market share".

It'll pass, trust me.

Then why aren't Physical games, movies, and digital music in red in the chart.