The best piece of indie wisdom I have
about book sales came from the Kindle Boards, where an author posed the question, «Are you selling more today than you were a year ago?
The ebook market didn't actually take over the world the way we thought it would, plateauing at about 30 % of the total sales market (and then either growing or shrinking, depending on who you ask; in a polarized world, even statistics
about book sales come with different interpretations).
Not exact matches
This
book is
about my own sort, my own rummage
sale, the grief that
came with the sorting and the healing that was ushered in.
I mean, sure they'll publish a
book about prayer if the author has the credentials, platform, and, preferably, thousands of church members to help catapult
sales, but if a simple living recipe
book about losing weight and saving your marriage while decluttering your home and raising happy kids
came along by a Christian author with a huge cooking blog platform, they won't say no.
When thinking
about launching your
book, it's common to solely focus on the Launch phase as this is where the majority of
sales come from.
(Also, the more speaking you do at libraries, the better your bookstore
sales will be, because at least some of the patrons who
come hear
about your
book at your library talk will then go out and purchase the
book at their local bookstore.
Fair warning, there has been notably less data
about Kindle
book sales history and
sales rank tracking in the past few months, so there will still be some adjustments in the
coming months to the
sales estimates that are generated.
Once your
book has steady
sales, is climbing the bestseller ranks, is getting new and valuable reviews, then you can think
about going with Lightning Source — although if it's good enough to be in bookstores, and your
sales are strong enough, a publisher will
come to you, making it a mute point.
When the time
comes, you'll want to tell them
about your new
book for
sale, and they'll want to buy it and spread the news.
Information on specific
sales data is
about e-readers and ebooks is often hard to
come by, especially from self - published authors who may not have their
books listed with some of the major
book tracking companies.
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So having
come to the conclusion that this self - publishing business was going to be a lot harder than I had thought, I submitted my novel to a boutique digital publisher that does very well in my genre, thinking
about how nice it would be for someone else to worry
about book sales and visibility.
its still not a fair price since movies cost way less and cost a ton more, and the movie business have
about the same garantie as the
book companies when it
comes to
sales.
Cheers could be heard
coming from the «print isn't dead» section of the
book - publishing industry on Monday, thanks to some numbers from Nielsen that showed
sales of printed
books rose this year by
about 2 %.
Obviously there can be a lot more contributing to the drop in
sales — a weaker economy means less consumers taking farther - reaching vacations, for example — but if the trend that
came about with the enhanced ebooks is solid, could this mean that people who buy
books about business or technology embrace e-reading while readers who purchase travel guides or cookbooks are less apt to choose digital over print?
You'll have a few purposes behind this blog: relating to your readers, sharing updates and
sales about your
book, letting them know
about upcoming events and giving a retrospective on events in the past, and most importantly, creating value for your readers to
come back to you again and again.
disclosure
about the real author, and
book sales took off as much out of curiosity as anything else... the true test will
come when JK publishes the sequel.
However, if you only focus on talking
about your
book instead of trying to make connections and build relationships the interview can end up
coming across as one long
sales pitch.
All participants will send emails to their email list, telling them
about the
book fair and then sit back and wait for the
sales to
come in.
You will
come away with: • insights on how to work with the Tattered Cover • how to create a great
book signing event • how to get your
book into the Tattered Cover • how to create great
sales • what Tattered Cover Press is all
about • the steps successful authors take that ones that limp along don't • new friends in the authoring community Tell all your author friends... the more, the merrier!
Many people care
about selling you a product, Heather and Shelley genuinely care
about you and answer questions in detail... I
came away from the course with a greater understanding of what to do online to increase the
sales of my
book and a clear marketing plan to implement.
«In - store displays are the most common way, after personal recommendations, that frequent buyers find new
books, accounting to
about 20 % of purchases, according to a survey by the Codex Group,» Postrel notes, and while online discovery is growing, it hasn't
come near to keeping up with online
sales.
So then, ultimately, that's when you need to keep the momentum up, and to think
about some good ways to keep your
book sales coming through.
At the very end of the webinar you will tell them
about your
book and possibly send them to a
sales page with a coupon code since they attended your webinar, and then you'll sit back and watch the
sales come in.
I'll remind everyone
about the huge decrease in
sales the publisher had after the last Twilight
book came out.
If an article
comes out
about you in an industry magazine or you're a featured guest on a radio show, your
book's
sales rank can show a resulting spike in
sales (Or not!
I think what most writers (self - published or traditional) worry
about when it
comes to
book publicity is that there seem to be no tried and true strategies that will guarantee robust
sales.
Writers need to
come out with the next product, not worry
about social media popularity or even
book sales.
The extrapolation of e-
book sales and turnover in 2010
comes from a GfK consumer panel consisting of 20,000 people interviewed each month
about their
book purchases.
-- Guest Post by Joan Stewart of PublicityHound.com — Contact information is probably not the first thing that
comes to mind when you think
about book sales...
A lot of us worry
about quality of
books in the self - publishing arena; could you break down what you foresee the editor's role will look like in a few years, if you think they will freelance, and whether the world will
come back around to trying to guarantee that e-
books available for
sale will, if nothing else, have proper grammar and sentence structure and punctuation?
Sales Channel Report: Authors can gain valuable insights about where their book sales are coming from, and who is most likely to
Sales Channel Report: Authors can gain valuable insights
about where their
book sales are coming from, and who is most likely to
sales are
coming from, and who is most likely to buy.
I get to tell you
about a product I love, and
Book Design Templates gives me a % of
sales that
come from my site and links.
I have a breakdown of
sales and borrows farther down, but the quick summary is that I earned
about $ 3043 in the first month, most of that
coming from one
book (but that
book being bolstered by another free one).
We saw
about 30 % of our
sales last quarter
coming from
books selling into libraries.
He
comes from a more traditional, «hard
sales» background — something a lot of indie authors need to learn
about so they can be comfortable promoting their
books (without making beginner mistakes).
In the meantime, I expect my
sales numbers to stay
about the same as they were last month overall, with a boost toward the end of the month when the new
book comes out.
When an author releases 1
book every 3 months, they will probably see a boost in
sales for
about a month and a half to two months after each new release, then there will be a dip for that last month or so before the next
book comes out.
About 22 % of
sales come from nonfiction
books.
Author friend did say that emails
about her «not in ebook format
books»
came mostly from Kindle readers, so obviously Kindle interest and
sales are growing.
As numbers
come out and we learn at least enough
about the big success stories to determine how little of the cash pool was available for other authors to divvy up, we should be able to get a clearer picture of how well somebody can expect to do through this program, After all, even if you were only making $ 1 per
book sold on each of your hypothetical 30 annual
sales through Barnes & Noble, that's better than getting nothing at all from a lending library for Kindle owners.