A data profile of the people who buy, follow and care about E-books in France — modelled from more than twelve digital signal sources. E-books has an estimated audience of 3,553,160 people in France.
The average E-books fan in France is 41.5 years old, more female, and lives primarily in Île-de-France.
The audience is concentrated in Île-de-France, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Occitanie.
Top brand affinities include Sports, Design, E-book readers, with strongest over-indexing on Sports (1.59× the country average).
Demographically, the E-books audience skews more female with an average age of 41.5, and over-indexes on personality traits such as Price Sensitivity, Need for Security.
Compared to the country baseline, this audience shows distinctive patterns across 20 brand affinities and 13 regions tracked by Rascasse.
The typical E-books fan in France is more female, around 41.5 years old, with strong Price Sensitivity tendencies and a notable affinity for Sports.
The key figures that characterise the E-books profile in France.
58.2% are female, 41.8% are male, average age 41.5.
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Female | 58.2% |
| Male | 41.8% |
| Average age | 41.5 |
| Estimated audience size | 3,553,160 |
| Age bracket | Share | % |
|---|---|---|
| 16-19 | 16% | |
| 20-29 | 19% | |
| 30-39 | 18% | |
| 40-49 | 20% | |
| 50+ | 28% |
of the worldwide E-books audience comes from France.
| Country | Share |
|---|---|
| United States | 19.9% |
| China | 6.0% |
| Japan | 5.9% |
Where the E-books audience in France is strongest.
| # | Region | Reach | Affinity | × |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | ~500K | 1.17× | |
| 02 | Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur | ~300K | 1.12× | |
| 03 | Occitanie | ~300K | 1.07× | |
| 04 | Pays de la Loire | ~200K | 1.07× | |
| 05 | Île-de-France | ~700K | 1.05× | |
| 06 | Brittany | ~200K | 1.01× | |
| 07 | Nouvelle-Aquitaine | ~300K | 0.97× | |
| 08 | Grand Est | ~300K | 0.97× | |
| 09 | Bourgogne-Franche-Comté | ~100K | 0.97× | |
| 10 | Centre-Val de Loire | ~100K | 0.97× | |
| 11 | Corsica | ~20K | 0.96× | |
| 12 | Hauts-de-France | ~300K | 0.91× | |
| 13 | Normandy | ~200K | 0.90× |
The strongest cross-interests of the E-books audience — brands, topics and people combined.
| # | · | Interest | Category | Affinity | × |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Urban fantasy | Literature | 6.10× | ||
| 02 | IBooks | Technology & Electronics | 4.81× | ||
| 03 | E-book readers | Technology & Electronics | 4.74× | ||
| 04 | Women's fiction | Literature | 4.17× | ||
| 05 | Public library | Literature | 4.09× | ||
| 06 | Miou-Miou | Movies & TV | 3.73× | ||
| 07 | Wattpad | Internet & Social Media | 3.52× | ||
| 08 | Christina Ricci | Movies & TV | 3.12× | ||
| 09 | Papyrus | Politics & Society | 2.68× | ||
| 10 | ICloud | Technology & Electronics | 2.60× | ||
| 11 | Lionel Jospin | Politics & Society | 2.30× | ||
| 12 | Office 365 | Technology & Electronics | 2.12× | ||
| 13 | Julien Clerc | Music & Radio | 2.01× | ||
| 14 | Cloud computing | Technology & Electronics | 1.76× | ||
| 15 | Decoration | Home & Garden | 1.73× | ||
| 16 | Tablet computers | Technology & Electronics | 1.72× | ||
| 17 | Charlotte Cardin | Music & Radio | 1.67× | ||
| 18 | Sports | Sports | 1.59× | ||
| 19 | Gemini | Technology & Electronics | 1.53× | ||
| 20 | Design | Home & Garden | 1.52× |
Values above 1.00× are above the country average, values below 1.00× below it.
| Trait | Cluster | Deviation | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price Sensitivity | PREMIUM | 1.35× | |
| Need for Security | CONSERVATISM | 1.26× | |
| Career Orientation | POWER | 1.23× |
| Trait | Cluster | Deviation | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Extroversion | THRILL | 0.80× | |
| Risk Appetite | THRILL | 0.83× | |
| Early Adopter Mentality | POWER | 0.87× |
E-books has an estimated audience of 3,553,160 people in France, concentrated in Île-de-France and Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
58.2% of E-books fans are female, 41.8% are male, with an average age of 41.5 years.
E-books fans show strongest brand affinity for Sports (1.59×), Design (1.52×), and E-book readers (4.74×) over the country average.
E-books fans in France are most concentrated in Île-de-France (reach ~700K), Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (reach ~500K), and Occitanie (reach ~300K). These three regions account for the largest share of the active audience.
Beyond E-books itself, the audience over-indexes on Design (1.52×), E-book readers (4.74×), ICloud (2.6×), and IBooks (4.81×) compared to the France average.
Related profiles, rankings and the same audience in other markets.
Audience size is the estimated number of people in France who actively search for E-books. Affinity is an over-index ratio: 2.0× means the audience is twice as likely to engage with that brand or trait as the country average. Reach is the estimated number of audience members in a region. Regional and brand-affinity tables are sorted from strongest signal to weakest.
This audience profile is generated by Rascasse from anonymized search-behavior signals across France. For methodology see methodology. Affinity values are over-index ratios vs. the country average (1.0 = baseline). Audience sizes are estimated, not measured.
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