I'm in the process of updating my slides and information about e-book sales — which can be a confusing and murky issue since the reporting of such sales is not as standardized
as print book sales (yet).
US Publisher upheaval ahead
as print book sales see sharp decline.
Not exact matches
Printed by a small publishing company known for other scientific masterpieces such
as The Psychology of the Simpsons and You Do Not Talk About Fight Club, Campbell's
book quickly hit the word - of - mouth circuit and skyrocketed towards bestseller status, with
sales exceeding half a million copies to date.
As a side note, this
book is MOST LIKELY to fit his data calculations, because it's been out for a long time; it's self - published and has been out long enough that there are essentially zero
print sales; I haven't been trying to promote it much, mostly because I don't control the first two
books in the series, and so there are very few big jumps; and I had a new release about two months ago, so the
book in January is at about the «average» rank in its release - to - release lifecycle.
Ebook
sales are not falling, the
print book is not roaring back into vogue and the trend of stories about their perilous future is just a passing one, to be forgotten
as soon
as the full story can be told.
More and more very lean
book publishers — without big organizations — are emerging from other media
as a result of the fact that
books can be published without big
print runs or big
sales forces in the digital era.
As for indies, they can also go «out of
print» by the simple expedient of the author withdrawing the
book from
sale.
But a recent Pew study found that even
as sales of e-readers like Nook and Kindle grow swiftly, young people still frequent libraries more than you might think, and
print books remain popular.
With
print sales falling by 10 % last year, and
book purchasing
as a whole down 4 %, ebook
sales were reported to have grown, according to Nielsen's tracking of
book purchases, up 20 % in the UK in 2013, with 80m ebooks bought by UK consumers, to a value of # 300m.
Book publishers are behaving similarly, and largely approaching ebooks in a protectionist manner to try and add revenue to existing
print sales, then seamlessly transition to digital
as that segment grows.
I still don't understand how publishers can hope to see their
sales of ebooks rise while pricing them at, essentially, the same level
as a
printed paper
book.
I know hundreds of writers who attend events, such
as the Romance Writers of America conference and they just encourage people to just buy the
print books on Amazon, instead of securing the
sale.
This, together with the lack of a pan-Russian
book sales network like Barnes & Noble, that creates the perfect setting for ebooks to thrive, and
as is evident elsewhere in the world, digital editions are already luring more readers than their
printed counterparts.
As Publishers Weekly puts it, «the 2014 figures are further evidence that
print books are selling better than they have since
sales of e-
books exploded in 2010.»
«With an e-book there's no
printing, no overprinting, no need to forecast, no returns, no lost
sales due to out - of - stock, no warehousing costs, no transportation costs, and there is no secondary market — e-
books can not be resold
as used
books,» the company wrote.
Print books depend on the lucrative holiday season to drive
sales,
as people tend to buy them
as gifts and... [Read more...]
That is, your contract may say that your rights will revert to you after your
book goes out of
print, but if you have an ebook, the publisher takes that to mean that
as long
as an ebook is for
sale anywhere, the
book is still in
print.
Royalties splits for
sales on printshopcentral.com will be
as follow: Author will receive 80 % of list price for each
sale of a
Printed Book & / or a Digital
Book.
Sales figures from the end of last year show that while they don't dominate the marketplace
as they once did,
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I've got a thousand or more copies of that
book in my warehouse that I have to sell through before I can do another
print run — and I need to decide if
sales are strong enough to warrant another thousand or more
books, or if I need to go to a small digital
print run, in which case, I might need to raise the price (because small
print runs cost more per unit than large ones, and I have to offer my distributor a 65 % discount
as per our contract).
The Ingram Spark system is like that, convoluted and rather a pain to navigate, but they do a very nice
print product so we continue to use them for hard copy, but now upload our own e-
books to Amazon and B&N
as those are the only two that deliver
sales for my author's
books.
As for
print, Amazon controls 64 percent of
sales of
printed books online.
The massive drop in
print sales in the US quantified
as 22 million fewer
print books sold in recent weeks, a decline which Betts says is accelerating.
Yes, Italian publishers may well have a lot to learn from what has happened in the US and UK e-
books market, and hopefully the «delayed effect» on
print books sales,
as highlighted by Nielsen's data, will give them some much - needed breathing space to watch, learn and react — because when change comes it will come quickly.
With this being what they are, just
as I released the
book, the eBook market exploded and within months it became obvious that
print is on its way out, while the Kindle and Nook now generate the majority of today's
book sales, particularly when you're not published by a New York publishing house.
My only income is through
book sales and
as long
as the cost of the
book printing is covered then I can carry on in this way.
While publishers in general are cautiously navigating the choppy waters of the digital shift, most are riding the strong wave of ebook
sales that's putting
as much profit in their coffers
as Amazon's, while balancing a constricting (but by no means expiring) market for
print books, along with a rats nest of pre-digital contracts, rights, and royalty scenarios.
Oh, they're aware that their
printed book sales are dropping alright, but
as you point out being able to quickly and coherently respond to that threat is another story!
Since
books can stay in
print indefinitely, you should be able to get your rights back when
sales fall below a certain number, such
as 300 copies sold in a year.
Following the September 22 New York Times article «The Plot Twist: E-Book
Sales Slip, and
Print Is Far From Dead,» other media outlets at the national and local levels, as well as internationally, have been sharing the news that print books remain a favorite for readers and that physical bookstores are benefit
Print Is Far From Dead,» other media outlets at the national and local levels,
as well
as internationally, have been sharing the news that
print books remain a favorite for readers and that physical bookstores are benefit
print books remain a favorite for readers and that physical bookstores are benefitting.
Also, enhancing the digital experience like the new Jeff Buick novel One Child is doing is a great way to leverage digital
sales as well
as create buzz for the
printed book.
By insisting on blindly continuing to spend copious amounts of money on
print runs, only to have them end up
as pulp after they have been remaindered by the dwindling number of
book shops through low
sales, over the far cheaper and fastest growing area within literature today — the eBook, does you no favours whatsoever.
The point the distribution platforms are making is that reader consumers are going to get tired of sifting through the 99cent spam «ebooks» and get fed up with being duped by piracy masquerading
as genuine titles, leading to a drop in ebook
sales in favor of «good old fashioned» (re: reliable)
print books.
With an e-book, there's no
printing, no over-
printing, no need to forecast, no returns, no lost
sales due to out - of - stock, no warehousing costs, no transportation costs, and there is no secondary market — e-
books can not be resold
as used
books.
With an e-book, there's no
printing, no over-
printing, no need to forecast, no returns, no lost
sales due to out of stock, no warehousing costs, no transportation costs, and there is no secondary market — e-
books can not be resold
as used
books.
I put a review on the
book as it is not mine but gave it 5 stars and an explanation that it is a bogus copy, and the real copy is indeed in
print and for
sale in my line - up of
books.
Of course, much of the data is talking about ebooks over
print sales, but
as Walsh's assessment from AuthorEarnings shows,
print book revenue for the actual author is nothing compared to their digital income.
Some of this is sunk cost, some is ongoing, but unless you believe (
as I do) that for now the best way to sell ebooks is to give them away in order to increase
print -
book sales, then there's no good reason to charge these costs to the ebook's balance sheet.
For our first season we'll be hitting big ticket topics such
as a commentary on the current publishing landscape, how to optimize your
book metadata for
sales, how to sell your
book to indie bookstores, ebooks vs.
print books, and how much it costs to self - publish.
The growth in e-book sales in genres such as romance and science - fiction is leading to a cannibalisation in sales of printed books, according to Nielsen BookScan data.
No spare change, but
as I've pointed out elsewhere, this remains little more than a rounding error for the
book publishing industry
as a whole, representing still less than 5 % of anticipated 2009 total
print sales.
«With an e-book, there's no
printing, no over-
printing, no need to forecast, no returns, no lost
sales due to out - of - stock, no warehousing costs, no transportation costs, and there is no secondary market — e-
books can not be resold as used books,» the Amazon Books Team stated in July blog
books can not be resold
as used
books,» the Amazon Books Team stated in July blog
books,» the Amazon
Books Team stated in July blog
Books Team stated in July blog post.
The Publisher Defendants also feared that other competitive advantages they held
as a result of years of investments in their
print book businesses would erode and, eventually, become irrelevant,
as e-
book sales continued to grow.
Spent over ten years using cheap and free e-
books as marketing for
print books, but they still wanted to get into Amazon, and were willing to make major changes to their e-book
sales program to do it.
So
as eBook
sales continue to steadily increase every year, it's important for the savvy Independent authors out there having both the
print and eBook versions of their
book available, that you're aware of the additional considerations necessary to have your
book cover work
as best it can in the confines of online retail shelves and eReader devices.
Print books depend on the lucrative holiday season to drive
sales,
as people tend to buy them
as gifts and most big budget novels normally come out in the last three months of the year.
As with other Kindle
books, the author sets the list price and then can choose from two royalty schemes: 35 % of the list price on every
book sold or 70 % of the actual
sale price of the
book in certain territories (including the U.S.) The catch with the 70 % royalty is that Amazon can reduce the selling price to match a competitor's price for an e-
book or
print book, or to match their own price for a
print book.
Self - published authors who've relied on multiple
sales channels to put their
books in front of readers will be excited by today's announcement from Barnes & Noble: NOOK Press is now re-launching
as simply Barnes & Noble Press, which will incorporate both the ebook and
print - on - demand sites.
They have confirmed that US e-book
sales are holding steady and growing at about the same pace
as print and audio
books.