I bet there are some people looking
at ebook sales figures and thinking that these bestselling indie authors owe their success to a lucky roll of the dice.
And because we don't know, looking to see if ebooks have had an impact on hardcover sales by looking
at ebook sales and looking at hardcover sales doesn't answer the question.
But when you look closer
at ebook sales, the percentage controlled by self - published authors is much higher... These indie authors are becoming, every single year, a more potent voice in publishing.
The reports, which claim to only be interested in helping all authors make sound decisions based on a clear look
at ebook sales data, are updated quarterly with different facets of bookselling.
Here's what we tell our clients: your best look
at your eBook sales is by reviewing your eBook distribution accounts with KDP, Nook Press and iBookstore.
Not exact matches
Fortune magazine seems to disagree with the «
ebook sales are falling» claim,
at least as of September of last year.
The world's largest online retailer and the huge publisher have for months been in a nasty and
at times public battle reportedly over the share each company would get for
eBook sales.
My
ebooks are priced
at 4.95 with Ridan because they did run a lot of numbers looking
at pricing with Michael J. Sullivan's books and determined that
sales in that niche were maximized
at the 4.95 price point.
Everyone from John Scalzi to the L.A. Times took a shot
at questioning, distinguishing, undermining, spinning, and just plain refuting Amazon's assertion that reducing
ebook prices would result in more
sales and bigger profits for publishers and authors.
At the time of payment, we will make available to you an online report detailing
sales of
eBooks and corresponding Royalties.
Pull all of your book data into the ISBN management section: title, subtitle, price, ISBN,
eBook ISBN,
eBook price, trim size, page count, word count, category, age group — into book ISBN fields
at www.myidentifiers.com (this will start the process of getting your book's data out to the world and make it easier for the
sales to be tracked.)
If we offer your
eBook for
sale in a different currency than a currency in which you set your List Price («Sale Currency»), we may convert the List Price to the Sale Currency at an exchange rate we determ
sale in a different currency than a currency in which you set your List Price («
Sale Currency»), we may convert the List Price to the Sale Currency at an exchange rate we determ
Sale Currency»), we may convert the List Price to the
Sale Currency at an exchange rate we determ
Sale Currency
at an exchange rate we determine.
If you look
at the offerings for free on Amazon or Barnes and Noble, you see «sneak peeks» offered by traditional publishers for
ebooks that they have for
sale in those venues.
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.
Is no greater than the
eBook's List Price
at any other retailer, website, or
sales channel.
Amazon sell approximately one million kindle eReaders per month and have approximately 80 % of the
eBook sales worldwide
at time of writing.
The latest US book industry
sales figures from the Association of American Publishers show
ebooks are now tracking
at 9 % of domestic trade book revenue for the 8 - month period January to August 2010.
Not only have
ebook sales passed hardback
sales at Amazon, now they've passed paperbacks.
The latest US book industry
sales figures from the Association of American Publishers show
ebooks are now tracking
at 9 % of domestic trade book revenue for the 8 - month period January... Read more >
Back in the spring of 2011, Evan Schnittman,
at the time Bloomsbury's director of
sales and marketing, declared that enhanced
ebooks were dead.
You will adjust the List Price as required to ensure that,
at all times that the
eBook is available for
sale through NOOK Press, the List Price does not exceed the maximum list price or go below the minimum list price permitted in our Pricing and Payment Terms.
In addition to the concerns already listed above, I'm cringing
at wording like: «We will have the sole discretion in determining all marketing and promotion related to the
sale of your
eBook through NOOK Press.....
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.
Also,
ebook sales may be flat or dropping
at the big publishing houses, mostly because they have raised prices since the return of agency pricing.
«KindleUnlimited indie page reads (
at a current run rate of $ 180M + / yr) are now paying Amazon - exclusive indie authors far more total dollars than «wide» indie authors are earning from their
sales at all non-Amazon
ebook retailers combined (a total run rate of roughly $ 50M / yr in non-Amazon indie author earnings).»
Sales of
eBooks reached $ 3 billion
at the end of 2012, up from $ 68 million in 2008 according to a recent article posted onYahoo!
Self - published indie authors are verifiably capturing
at least 20 % — 35 % of all multi-country
ebook sales at each retailer.
Much like the headache of licensing
ebooks to libraries stateside, Japanese patrons and librarians have been frustrated by the lack of bestselling and new release content available for digital lending, for many of the same reasons that publishers in the US have balked
at making their entire catalogs available to libraries, namely fears that print
sales will decline.
Self - published or legacy published,
ebooks are still holding ground
at around one - fourth of total book
sales.
This report, which showed a 10.5 % increase in digital
sales, comes
at a time when the debate around
ebooks and their viability from different angles is starting to... [Read more...]
A number of authors have criticized the concept of free book giveaways or listing
ebooks at substantially lower prices, based on the belief that this will translate into not only higher rates of piracy, but also lost
sales from readers who would have otherwise paid full price.
He wants a great read
at a great price, and as
ebook sales and retailers» profits have demonstrated, he wants it relatively conveniently.
The large argument
at the time was that if
ebooks were given away for free
at the library, it would cannibalize the physical and digital
sales.
Quote ««KindleUnlimited indie page reads (
at a current run rate of $ 180M + / yr) are now paying Amazon - exclusive indie authors far more total dollars than «wide» indie authors are earning from their
sales at all non-Amazon
ebook retailers combined (a total run rate of roughly $ 50M / yr in non-Amazon indie author earnings).
At Hachette, they were down 1.1 % to 14.5 m, while at HarperCollins, when sales from Harlequin Mills & Boon are excluded (the company was acquired halfway through 2014), ebook sales were down 4.7
At Hachette, they were down 1.1 % to 14.5 m, while
at HarperCollins, when sales from Harlequin Mills & Boon are excluded (the company was acquired halfway through 2014), ebook sales were down 4.7
at HarperCollins, when
sales from Harlequin Mills & Boon are excluded (the company was acquired halfway through 2014),
ebook sales were down 4.7 %.
When you have already published your
eBook on XinXii and would like to offer it on other
eBook shops, then just write us an email
at with the following information: - Title - Author's name - Desired
sales channels - ISBN (except for Amazon, Casa del Libro and Barnes & Noble) Please note that you should have uploaded a book cover with a width of 1400 pixels and mentioned the book title and author's name.
A couple of years ago, Amanda Hocking came on the self - publishing scene with several YA
ebooks priced
at 99 cents (for book 1s) and $ 2.99 (for subsequent books) and had legendary
sales that led to a legendary two - million - dollar traditional publishing deal.
Smashwords also has some perks that make me wish the outfit had made more inroads into the
ebook market on its own merits (as a seller and not just a distributor), such as the ability to issue coupons, to offer affiliates a greater percentage of the
sales price, and the fact that authors receive a higher royalty rate there than
at any of the other stores.
KDP Select and the 90 - day exclusivity deal means that your
eBook is not available
at libraries either, or
at Barnes and Noble (B&N), or on Kobo (the largest overseas
eBook distribution and
sales platform).
Some book publishers, fearful that library
ebook lending will cannibalize retail
sales of books, are reluctant to supply
ebooks to libraries
at the very time that library patrons are clamoring for greater access to such materials.
By January 2011,
ebook sales at Amazon had even surpassed paperback
sales.
But libraries can't look
at the first page of an
ebook before they buy it, and under the
sales rank system they can't even choose according to the professional review publications they have on file.
Amazon is talking about
ebook sales going to authors while print book
sales would go to Hatchette and if Hatchette had agreed to this - showing they cared about their authors - Amazon would go back to large restocking / reorders on print books, discounting print books instead of selling them
at the absurd high prices set by Hatchette which they've been complaining about, and re-enabling pre-order buttons.
There's A Problem I've written before about how small markets, both English language ones like Ireland and other territories with major markets in similar languages, face challenges when it comes to
ebooks: So we have large publishers seeing
sales internationally that they can EASILY service
at little marginal cost.
Well aren't you lucky, the
ebook version is on
sale for just 99 cents
at all of your favorite
ebook retailers (but hurry, this
sale ends SOON!).
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At those 4 other stores, self - published indie
ebooks make up 22 % of all
ebooks purchases and take in 32 % of all author income generated by
ebook sales.
Publishing conglomerates Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster are facing tough times this quarter as
ebook sales fell and total profit dropped 5.6 %
at S&S and approximately 12 % for RPH.
First that they represent a shifting top ten recorded by IPN
at a given time and do not reflect
ebook sales over a longer period.
However, John Gilstrap's Kensington title «High Treason» costs $ 8.97 in PB
at Amazon and $ 7.39 for the Kindle edition, despite the fact that there's no foiling or embossing on the
ebook version, and once I've read the Kindle copy, I can't give it to my dad, donate it to the Friends of the Library book
sale or the local senior center, sell it to my favorite used book store, etc..
At the very least, they will help increase discoverability of your
ebook and push
sales indirectly.