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Huge ebook sale!
Today and tomorrow, I'm participating in
a huge ebook sale!
Not exact matches
The world's largest online retailer and the
huge publisher have for months been in a nasty and at times public battle reportedly over the share each company would get for
eBook sales.
If indeed indie
ebooks have already garnered a quarter of the industry's unit «
sales» in such a short period of time, that's a
huge power shift in the publishing world.
Authors, writers, publishers of
eBooks, audiobooks and short texts can... A) sell their
eBook through their author page on XinXii - without author contract - in real - time, without technical skills - with an own authorpage and online shop - enter all information such as description, tags, cover, price... - upload an
eBook in one or multiple formats: PDF, ePub, mobi, doc, xls... - high royalties per download - consolidated real - time
sales reports - keeping full editorial and copyright control or B) sell their
eBook through their author page on XinXii and additionally on major
eBook retailers - we convert
eBooks to the ePub and mobi format for free - we distribute to the leading
eBook - shops all over the world for free - we provide consolidated
sales reports Readers have... - the opportunity to discover new titles in all categories and genres - an easy access to a
huge variety of content - can instantly download after purchase - have the opportunity to rate and comment on
eBooks
S&S provides weekly
sales reports to their authors so I can see how many books I've sold (
ebook or print) and also who sold them (indie bookstore versus chain versus places like Costco etc) They also have a great service to tackle piracy (a
huge prob with
ebooks).
In particular, the
huge increase in digital
sales shows how rapidly readers and publishers are embracing
ebook reading.
Mike DiPiano, managing general partner of NewSpring, who now joins Open Road's board of directors, said, «There is
huge disruption in the publishing industry as business models are rapidly evolving and
ebooks are becoming a greater share of overall trade book
sales.
Those international
sales can provide a
huge advantage for authors, as the
ebook revolution has not made such inroads in much of the rest of the world and physical copies still make up the majority of book
sales there.
In such a context, Amazon is more insulated than other
ebook reader manufacturers, because the giant bookseller can recoup some of its losses through the
huge sales generated from
ebooks and other content available through its online store.
And this year, the arrival of the iPad put a
huge spike in
ebook sales thanks to Apple's built - in iBooks store and ereading app.
As I said in Why
Ebooks Must Fail and Advances Must Align to Risks, ebooks are currently sold with no advance cash payments and have the same discounts as print, leaving publishers with the onus of huge advance costs and only a trickle of income from individual
Ebooks Must Fail and Advances Must Align to Risks,
ebooks are currently sold with no advance cash payments and have the same discounts as print, leaving publishers with the onus of huge advance costs and only a trickle of income from individual
ebooks are currently sold with no advance cash payments and have the same discounts as print, leaving publishers with the onus of
huge advance costs and only a trickle of income from individual
sales.
One of the main facets why
ebook sales are going to be
huge for the next week is because prices are getting slashed.
Publishers may be reluctant to sell foreign rights to China Mobile, as it takes a
huge cut of
sales — at least 50 percent and sometimes as much as 70 percent — and sells the
ebooks at a 90 percent discount from the print price.
With the drop in book
sales, it is natural that authors and publishers, who have spent a
huge amount of creativity and money into pushing a material into the public spectrum, are the most affected by
ebook piracy.
With the soaring popularity of Kindle and other
eBook formats,
sales potential is
huge even for the brand new indie author.
Making a group gives you the ability to make sure that your book is written according to what your customers want, and can make for a
huge boost of
sales and reviews during your
eBook launch.
In overall, the main tendency is that engagement is growing at Kobo — consumers buy more books, but still 10 % of customers make 50 % of the
sales, so it shows who starts reading an
ebook, will be a
huge fan and will read more.
With 14 % Kindle ownership amongst book buyers we are seeing
huge changes — 9 % of total book
sales are
ebook sales, Publishers are in crisis mode, eReader companies are becoming hugely important, everyone is trying to get into books, lots more people are reading.
Yet Amazon insists it makes almost no money and they refuse to show how much they are paying authors from this
huge increase in Amazon
sales that can be tied to one thing, KINDLE EBOOK S
sales that can be tied to one thing, KINDLE
EBOOK SALESSALES.
99 % of indie authors will not have print distribution in physical bookstores, and I would postulate that all the success stories we have heard in the last 2 years about indie authors and
huge sales have come from
ebook sales, not print.
So if you have a big audience that pre-ordered your book there, you'll get a
huge sales spike on publication day that'll propel your
ebook up the ranks.
@Sam: the barrier to entry for
ebooks sales is low, but Amazon has a
huge advantage nonetheless because their database of credit cards is not easily reproducible.
The Big Five get a
huge portion of their revenue from hardcover and paperback
sales, so it's like saying, «If you discount the 80 % of the revenue that authors get from hardcover
sales, indie
ebooks easily outpace traditionally published
ebooks.»
By other accounts, which try to shine light on
ebook adoption by looking at markets like Amazon (which accounts for a scary two - thirds of
ebook sales), show that a
huge and growing percentage of
ebooks are being sold by indie publishers or authors themselves rather than the bigs, and a third of them don't even have ISBNs, the universal ID used to track most books.
Amazon launches the Kindle, kickstarting the
ebook sales revolution that would have a
huge impact on physical book
sales over the ensuing decade.
They dropped every month for the first 5 months of 2015 (the most recent month that data's available from the AAP); for that period in total, adult
ebook sales are down 3.2 percent compared to 2014, while young adult
ebook sales (think books like Hunger Games and Divergent, which have a
huge adult crossover audience) are down 43.3 percent.
This helped the
huge book in
ebook sales and caused the
huge decrease in physical
sales.
My
ebook sales grew, along with my editing business (but that's another
huge success story).
But it turns out that Stieg's Millenium Trilogy isn't the only
ebook that's enjoying
huge (paid)
sales.
January's $ 1.38 borrow rate represents a
huge 294 % improvement on the $ 0.35 that would be paid on a
sale of an
ebook priced at $ 0.99, while a book priced at $ 1.99 would have got 97 % more revenue for a borrow than for a
sale.
The reason I'm hopeful and positive is that these
huge multinational corporations run on bottom line profits, and since they've seen such a big drop off in
ebook profitability due to dramatically fewer
sales, I think they'll be experimenting with pricing models and
sales to fine tune their strategies moving forward.