I wrote about some of the things which are
affecting ebook sales here.
Jeremy Greenfield at Digital Book World asked me for comments earlier today, in particular how the device might
affect ebook sales.
This certainly doesn't
affect the ebook sales data you share (although it would be interesting to see data from some of the non-Amazon platforms), but it could paint a different picture for the print sales.
The Federation of European Publishers argues that a recent EU court decision in favor of ebook lending could negatively
affect ebook sales in some countries.
Not exact matches
I've been hearing readers complain about rising
ebook prices and spotted more than a few at $ 12.99, $ 17.99, even $ 29.99, but I hadn't yet seen the numbers on how this
affects sales.
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On several occasions, we ended up talking about how libraries lend
ebooks and how that can
affect sales, not unlike the discussions we had with some publishers.
Authors can now try a promotion, and know — How the 10 % that is
ebook sales is
affected, how the 10 % that is Amazon book
sales is
affected, how the other 80 % is
affected.
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 overall
ebook sales for most publishers at a point of stasis for now, the Digital Book World conference commissioned Jonathan Nowell at Nielsen Book to provide a closer look at how the rise of
ebooks has
affected what sells in print form.
However, each borrow
affects ebook ranking just as a
sale does, so there is a side benefit to actual
sales, too.
Germany will soon finalize fixed prices for
ebooks, but questions remain about how this will
affect sales models and
ebook adoption.
The sudden popularity of
ebooks has put publishers in uncharted territory, and they are unsure how availability in libraries will
affect consumer
sales.
Takeaway:
Ebooks have
affected the print
sales market for all fiction categories.
Leaders from top library companies weighed in on this issue during an hour - long discussion held before a gathering of publishers, booksellers, and librarians, aiming to debunk lingering misunderstandings about ways in which libraries
affect retail
sales of
ebooks and digital content, and to inform publishers of new tools that have been developed to market, manage, and even sell digital content through libraries.
I have been calling and email KDP CS for over a month, and today I got an email back regarding my 11 + pages of data, graphs, KDP dashboard snapshots, and ongoing requests to show me ONE case where an
ebook in a giveaway
affected my
sales rank.
Because your
eBook sales will be
affected negatively if you only focus on fixed layout
eBook design options.
While categories like Romance and Mystery / Detective seem to be directly
affected by
ebook sales, Poetry
sales have remained relatively stable over the past five years.
The growth in
ebook sales in genres such as crime and romance has not made up for the shortfall in literary fiction, prompting ACE to outline ways it intends to support
affected authors.
Each borrow appears to
affect ebook ranking just as a
sale does, so we have to take the borrow - to -
sales rate into account for our earnings projection.
Nielsen offers specific figures on how
ebook sales have
affected print
sales in adult fiction, adult nonfiction, and juvenile categories.
He added that
sales of novels, which had been particularly
affected by the rise of
ebooks as fans of genre fiction such as crime novels fed their habit digitally, were also on the rise again.