Processing of statistical data of an industry through the use of modern approaches and methods of working with data can solve many problems for forecasting and understanding of the current situation, and is a particularly relevant toolkit for processing big data in the economy. The book industry is of great importance in the economic and cultural component of any country’s development. The book market contributes to the economy by creating jobs and stimulating related industries such as design, advertising, marketing, and is also part of the cultural significance in the form of knowledge preservation and transmission. The article aims to analyze data of the digital service of e-books and audiobooks LitRes. The results of the analysis will be useful for people whose interests are closely related to reading; experts who pay special attention to the digital book market; big data analysts. The research methods employed were statistical analysis and graphical methods. In this study, software was developed to collect and realize the solution of a number of problems through statistical analysis of data from the LitRes website. In the course of the study, more than 10 analytical tasks were solved in the field of genre analytics, calculating the cost of books by genre, making a rating of the most popular books according to reader’s opinion, as well as the most expensive books on the portal. A separate block of economic literature analytics is given. According to the results of analytics of economic literature, it is worth noting that the LitRes service has a wide range of scientific and educational literature, which is represented by various monographs and textbooks for bachelor, master, and graduate students. The most popular book in the study sample is Vladimir Andersons book The Storm in the American Market, the rating of which is 5.0, which demonstrates the reader’s positive response. The compiled rating TOP-3 Most Appreciated Books in the Economic Field of Knowledge can be recommended for reading to people whose interests are closely related to the field of economics, business and finance. The data obtained with the help of the developed software can help to collect statistics, analyze them, and give answers to the set tasks; on their basis, one can also build models to predict the demand for books of certain genres. Certainly, the range of data analysis tasks for the LitRes site can be extended, which can form the basis for further research.
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