I will also offer my books for
sale in trade paperback (soft cover) print format.
Not exact matches
Looking at
sales by format,
trade paperbacks — the format that holds adult coloring books — had a 4.01 % gain
in unit
sales over 2015, which is slightly less than 2015 (5 %).
While traditional publishers (actually, the top end publishers) are fighting over business and legal issues, like any big business, you adapt and work with what works — eBooks still represent a minority
in sales, but it is rapidly catching up to print, and by all accounts, has already passed hardcover (which has been
in decline
in a slow death since the advent of
paperbacks and
trade paperbacks in the 40s and 50s).
According to Tracy, most of the
paperback sales are
in trade paperback, rather than the smaller mass - market or pocket edition — those have mostly been replaced by the ebook.
It turns out that e-books are not cannibalizing hardcover and
trade paperback sales, as publishers» once feared, though mass market
paperbacks — which are often published much later than their hardback counterparts, and sold mostly
in more traditional retail environments like drugstores — have been negatively impacted.
Hardcover
sales in adult
trade fiction and non-fiction combined increased to a total of $ 1.5 billion
in 2013; ebooks
in fiction - only sold almost as much as hardcover for both fiction and non-fiction for adults — despite the typically lower price point of ebooks compared to hardcover and
paperback — a fact that speaks to the need to revamp the strategy by which publishers perceive digital - first and ebook - only.
Mike has been actively involved
in trade book publishing since his first job as a
sales clerk
in the brand new
paperback department of Brentano's Bookstore on Fifth Avenue
in 1962.
The fewer e-book stores that exist, the less
sales the format generates, which is resulting
in a resurgence of
trade paperback and hardcover
sales at the expense of e-books.
Digital
sales, direct convention book
sales and
trade paperback sales pay some of that invested money back to me
in the long run, but right now Skullkickers is still not
in the «black».
While
trade paperbacks still lead the industry
in sales, it does seem inevitable that at some point, eBooks will make up the vast majority of book
sales while physical books will fill a niche role.
Sadly, PW also seems to have stopped providing as much detail on breaking down print book
sales (hardcovers,
trade paperbacks, etc.), although they did reveal that print book
sales «plunged»
in June, with
trade paperback sales down a whopping 64 %, adult hardcovers down 25 %, and mass - market
paperbacks down 22 %.
«Prior to joining IBPA, I worked
in various
sales positions at Penguin (national accounts,
trade paperback sales, distributor
sales, and special markets).
Maybe they don't want it to be too convenient for the monthly subscription fee, lest it cannibalize
sales of digital comics on comiXology or
trade paperback collection, but
in our opinion, making comics easier to read benefits everyone
in the long run.
The reality though is that such a royalty is only likely to be paid on less than 15 percent of
trade home
sales and
in some cases, particularly with
paperbacks, less than 5 percent of
trade home
sales.»
While e-book
sales have been leveling off as they absorbed the replacement audience for mass market
paperbacks — because e-book prices are cheap
in mass market territory — the sector of e-books that have been selling the best are the first - run new bestsellers — the ones with the highest e-book prices initially (although those prices come down over time, just like a
paperback edition and the e-book prices are lower than hardcover and
trade paper usually.)
The report you link to says that
sales of hardcover and
trade paperbacks are up 2 %
in the first half of 2014.
Fairly brutal numbers across the board, with only a slight (2.1 %) increase
in young adult hardcover, flat adult
trade paper
sales, and decreases
in the other categories, including a dramatic 54.3 % decrease
in mass - market
paperback sales.
All
trade print segments had a decline
in August
sales with the largest coming
in mass market
paperback where
sales from reporting companies fell 36.4 %.
Fresh off impressive all - time high
sales of $ 90.3 M
in February (which made them the highest - grossing format, ahead of hardcovers and
trade paperbacks), e-book
sales settled down to a more reasonably robust $ 69.0 M for March of 2011.
I have
sales every day
in either
trade paperback or an e format from somewhere
in the world.
They've willingly sacrificed the
sales of mmpb and
trade paperbacks in order to try to save hardcovers.
For all those years
trade paperbacks were expanding
in sales, after all, comic book
sales were hanging
in there — and going up,
in some years.
«The
paperback fiction market this year is down seven percent
in trade value — I put this almost entirely down to ebook
sales... the mass - market
paperback is the thing we're going to cannibalise most.»
E-books, which have roughly doubled or tripled
in sales each of the past several years, not only blew past mass - market
paperback sales, not only passed adult hardcover
sales, but have now overtaken adult
trade paperback sales to become the largest single category of book
sales in February.
Now you can make sure that the
sales ranks you check will be all for
trade paperbacks, or all for Kindle Books, or even all for audiobooks — with a total of 17 possible choices
in the U.S. and 11 elsewhere.
The May 2011 e-book
sales stats bring with them the announcement that, so far
in 2011, e-books are the # 2 format, behind only adult
trade paperbacks, and ahead of both adult hardcovers and adult mass - market
paperbacks.