As quoted by Mr. Porter Anderson in the new Digital Book World white paper, Mr. Guy states, «
Adult fiction sales in the US are nearly 71 percent digital now, and that is also the category where indie sales have made the deepest inroads: today, 30 percent of all US adult fiction book purchases are of titles self - published by indie authors.»
Adult nonfiction unit sales increased 2 % over the first half of 2016, while
adult fiction sales rose just under 1 %.
We estimate that translated titles accounted for nearly 6 % of
adult fiction sales (excluding graphic novels) in 2016; sales were down on 2015 but still exceeded previous years, adding up to around 2m in units sold and # 18m in revenue.
According to the «Top Ten Trends in Publishing Every Author Needs to Know in 2017,» «70 % of
adult fiction sales were digital» in 2016.
While the majority of
adult fiction sales came from ebooks in 2016, the concept of «digital fatigue» isn't going away anytime soon.
Not exact matches
Centralized reporting of direct - from - author
sales is tougher to come by, but by all anecdotal measures the independent market has taken off, notably in the also - still - large category of
adult fiction.
When you consider that most of these ebook
sales would be for non-illustrated
adult fiction and non-
fiction — well under half of the $ 2.91 B — it's quite likely that the ebook share is closer to a third.
It's important to note that this is not the Twilight / Hunger Games phenomenon; in recent years, the surge in
sales of YA
fiction was taken to be a sign that more and more young people were reading, but that was quickly dispelled once the industry understood that YA
fiction was drawing in massive crowds of
adult readers.
In the consumer sector digital
sales of
fiction increased 8 %, with a 10 % rise in
sales of
adult non-
fiction.
If juvenile books can bring the numbers closer to the
adult fiction market, indie juvenile
sales will boom.
That growth was fueled in part by a sharp increase in
sales of children's and young
adult fiction, up 117 % to $ 469 million.
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Sales of
adult fiction ebooks increased by 13 %, but children's digital editions declined by 30 %.
Adult fiction had the highest percentage of e-book
sales, with 51 % of
sales purchased in the category bought in digital format.
One of the reasons why
sales are down is due to no big blockbuster titles in the juvenile nonfiction category, which declined 8 % compared to a year ago, while
sales of
adult fiction were off 12 % in the week.
According to the survey, ebooks
sales in the
adult trade
fiction category increased in 2013 over 2012, up 3.8 % to a yearly total of $ 1.3... [Read more...]
Unit
sales of
adult fiction titles decreased 1 percent in 2017, compared to the previous year.
According to the survey, ebooks
sales in the
adult trade
fiction category increased in 2013 over 2012, up 3.8 % to a yearly total of $ 1.3 billion.
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.
Graphic novels Bookstore
sales of
adult fiction graphic novels increased 13 percent in 2014, according to the latest Nielsen BookScan numbers;
sales of children's graphic novels and
adult nonfiction were harder to parse but seem to have had robust growth as well.
In Brazil, print book
sales are down 3.5 % for the last 12 months, with declines in the top 2 genres:
Fiction and
Adult Non-
Fiction.
With the release of JK Rowling's first
fiction title for
adult and non-wizarding fans, The Casual Vacancy, just days away, early figures on the book's
sales show that it has already taken in one million purchases in pre-orders, causing some to speculate that it will quite possibly reach the number one spot on several bestseller lists on its first day of
sales this Thursday.
While studies from groups like the Book Industry Study Group had once shown that teenagers were the readers least likely to adopt digital reading, the rise in digital
sales in young
adult fiction shows that more are taking to reading on their devices.
The strongest growth in publishing right now would be
Adult Fiction ebooks, capturing 30 % of total net publisher dollar
sales.
Their research does a good job at tracking
sales from all
adult fiction, non-
fiction, and kids books.
According to Publishers Weekly «
Adult fiction remained the most popular ebook category — 44 % of
sales in the category were in the digital format — but ebook
sales in the segment dropped 14 % from 2016, to 108 million units.
E-books remained the most popular format in
adult fiction, where they accounted for 33 % of
sales.
[Nielsen Book's] quiet PubTrack Digital service — the only source of real, granular ebook
sales data, based on invoices for ebook
sales from participating publishers — shows
adult fiction still accounting for 65 percent of all ebook
sales.
eBook
sales have been on the rise thanks to growing segments like Young
Adult Fiction, where we have seen growth by over 233 %.
Ebooks are now THE dominant
sales format for
adult fiction; bigger than hardcover, bigger than paperback.
According to Romance Writers of America, 39 percent of romantic
fiction is published in eBook format, and romantic
fiction accounts for more than $ 1 billion in
sales and 13 percent of all
adult fiction.
Adult print
fiction, by contrast, accounted for a much smaller 25.2 % in the same period — a percentage slightly smaller than even juvenile print
sales at 25.5 %.
On that criteria alone, probably not, especially since eBooks are now the dominant format in
adult fiction accounting for 40 % of
sales.
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eBooks exploded in the
adult fiction category last year, accounting for 30 percent of net publisher
sales in 2011 - up from 13 percent the year before.
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-LSB-...] print book
sales in 2014: 37 % juvenile, 23 %
adult fiction, and 40 %
adult nonfiction.
She's probably right, but considering that romance novel
sales make up for $ 1.1 billion dollars in 2013 (roughly one - fifth of all
adult -
fiction), this isn't quite the financial risk many might assume.
Nielsen offers specific figures on how ebook
sales have affected print
sales in
adult fiction,
adult nonfiction, and juvenile categories.
I also discussed Jane Friedman's post on some things authors should know, including the reports that Data Guy will be sharing at Digital Book World in the US
adult fiction: close to 45 percent of all books purchased in the US in 2016 were digital,
sales in the US are nearly 71 percent digital with 30 percent of all US
adult fiction book purchases are by self - published authors.