Sentences with phrase «at ebook sales figures»
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.
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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.
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 >
Looking at the sales figures of hardcovers, ebooks, and trade paper does not give us that answer, because that data doesn't address the initial question.
Even if that figure above of 92 % of Amazon's sales being kindle is in units, not dollars and even if bringing in the sales other than the genre sales (which Howey has shown dwarf all other Amazon sales), it's still very likely that at least 70 of their dollars in book sales are from ebooks.
First Baldur notes that ebooks have brought about a considerable devaluation across the industry (which presumably has been a boon for readers) something I question and isn't really held up by the figures either even if you look at the most recent figures from the UK, print sales were down modestly but digital sales more than made up for it.
Thus, Yes, eBook sales figures would differ at $ 9.99 versus $ 14.99, but not overall sales or profit of a book.
Nielsen Book's assertion this week at the BookInsights Conference that «Amazon / self - published» ebooks accounted in 2015 for 22 percent of the UK ebook market was a red flag to many observers who know that Amazon doesn't release its sales figures on the indie - ebook sector.
Often you'll see figures that indicate that ebooks account for about 25 % of all book sales for the major publishers, as in this recent graph from Nielsen, presented at London Book Fair in March 2017.
If we look at the latest ebook growth figures, and include the indie publishing figures often left out in the main stream media, we see a continuing rise in the sales of ebooks from authors outside the mainstream.
Somewhere after the clickbait headline, these articles invariably state (somewhere) something like this: ``... the latest sales numbers from leading publishers show a decline in e-books...» Well, sure — because their ebooks (depicted in purple in the authorearnings graphic at left) are drastically overpriced, and the indie / self - pubbed ebooks (depicted in blue) continue to gain ground with readers, pushing Big Pub's figures ever lower.
So I roughly figure that Amazon's total UK sales add up to between a fifth and a third of Amazon US's numbers: well ahead of the US ebook sales for Barnes & Noble or Apple, so Amazon UK's probably a good next store to look at.
As Anne said at the beginning, you can't buy Kindle and download outside the US, but all the ebooks they sell are in that format, I shudder to think of the lost international sales because of this restriction but I'm sure they did their figures and decided it didn't matter.