According to a Pew Research study from 2016,
the average number of books read by Americans is 12 (the median number is 4).
There are many ways to estimate
the average number of books that an indie author sells by analyzing data that's available.
If you could throw all these out,
the average number of books would be higher.
Books that need a much better cover, authors who don't market, unedited books, all these factors make
the average number of books sold smaller.
One of your long - term goals has to be to exceed
the average number of books sold.
Subscription services like Scribd and Oyster ran into problems because they paid out based on the list price of books, regardless of how many subscribers they had and
the average number of books a subscriber read per month.
Plus,
the average number of books sold by a self - published author is less than 80 copies.
What's
the average number of books you can sell @ the 99 cent price point versus the typical E-book price of $ 9.99?
Not exact matches
By fading the
average Joe, we can capitalize on public bias, get inflated
numbers, and place ourselves on the side
of the
books.
Her career batting
average in 114 games -LRB-.512) plus her
number of career hits (205), doubles (31), triples (22) and runs (171) all gain entry into the state record
book.
We compare the test scores
of students in each
of the seven categories, taking into account differences in the students» socioeconomic characteristics, including parent schooling, self - reported household income, the
number of non-school
books in the home, and the quality
of the peer groups (calculated by
averaging family background and home resources for all students in the classroom).
«So there's evidence that on
average girls are encountering a good
number of characters
of both genders while boys are almost only encountering
books about boys,» he says.
However, you may also set goals around attendance, spelling test
averages, publishing a certain
number of pieces in a class journal, or reading a certain
number of books.
Results indicate that on
average globally, SES achievement gaps have increased for all three available measures
of family SES: parents» education, parents» occupation, and the
number of books in the home.
I recently published a
book which had quite a
number if subheadings within each chapter, an
average of about one per page, so some pages had more than one subheading.
I would estimate that the
average annual income for self - published authors is slightly lower now and, having seen a
number of authors quit over the last couple
of years in order to get full time jobs because
of financial problems, it hasn't gotten any easier to make ends meet on just
book royalties.
Amazon Author Page: 4 out
of 5
of these authors have pages
Number of Reviews: each
book has at least 186 reviews / 4.5 out
of 5 star
average Formats Available: 5
of these
books are available in e-
book, hardcover, paperback, audio download formats, 3
of them are available in mp3 CDs as well Publication date: These
books were released between March 4 and September 23, 2014 Website: There doesn't appear to be a website for one
of these authors.
Realistically, the
number of self - published authors who want to have their
book in a store could fill your
average Barnes & Noble a couple times over.
Cell phone
book clubs could fit in with existing library programs and boost library -
book circulation, which, even with a
number of well - off «power readers» to raise the
average in Alexandria, is only mediocre following years
of underfunding for content.
On
average, you will sell over 2 times the
number of books at $ 0.99 than you will at $ 1.99.
The idea is that this matches the
average number of times a print
book can be checked out before it falls apart and needs to be replaced.
The argument I'm about to make is that this situation gives publishers (both self - and non-self) an incentive to market poor quality
books (remember the definition
of quality I outlined above), that the
average available quality
of books will fall, and that the overall publishing market will shrink in terms
of overall revenue (even though the the
number of units sold increases).
At this time we are estimating one million downloads a day on the
average, but because some
of the
books require files in multiple
numbers, instead
of estimating 32 million, for the 32 days from Jul. 4 through Aug. 4, we prefer to do an estimate
of a more conservative nature.
A post by Shelf Awareness shared the news that the Kids» Right to Read Project has investigated more incidences
of censorship and
book banning in 2013 than in 2012, and that the
number of cases this year was three times higher than
average.
This is the
average from the sales
numbers of six published
books from February till December 2015.
It also tracks the
number of books finished, the total time spent reading, the
average number of pages read per minute and much more.
Do mainstream publishers pay for reviews, buy up large amounts
of table space at large
book stores to squeeze out their competition, or take part in any
of a
number of things that would look less than scrupulous to the
average bear?
You could also inquire about the
average «sell in» for a
book — that's the
number of copies sold to retailers or distributors in advance
of the publication date.
Now that you know the
average number of words per page in your
book, you can calculate the page count with a little arithmetic.
The Top 20 Most Read list ranks
books by the
average number of daily Kindle readers and daily Audible listeners each week.
We've typeset many
books and therefore know how to calculate the
number of words that fit on an
average book page.
My sales
numbers range from 14 copies (yes, only 14 units sold) on one
book to another
book with 1000s
of copies sold, with an
average payment
of $ 2.70 - 3.00 per unit sold.
In addition, those who read e-
books read more
books than those who don't have the devices: The
average reader
of e-
books says she has read 24
books (the mean
number) in the past 12 months, compared with an
average of 15
books by a non-e-book consumer.
31 — The
average number of days in which a Kindle Scout author receives a publishing decision after submitting a
book
Among all American adults, the
average (mean)
number of books read or listened to in the past year is 12 and the median (midpoint)
number is 5 — in other words, half
of adults read more than 5
books and half read fewer.3 Neither
number is significantly different from previous years.4
For better or worse, I haven't segmented my list, which means it is a split
of fans
of my three different series, so the
number of purchases / downloads I can expect on a launch email varies widely by which series and what type
of book, but broadly speaking I can expect 100 purchases on a
book announcement on
average.
That
number is for downloads — many
of which will have been free — rather than actual sales, and yet that's still an
average of just 30 downloads per available
book a month: 360 a year.
We don't know if the reason trade paper sales have gone down (which Nowell reports) because most people don't like the format or because the
number of retail outlets carrying trade paper
books has gone down (witness the loss
of many chain bookstore locations, where most trade papers were sold) or because given a choice between trade paper and ebook, the
average reader will choose ebook.
The pricing guidelines also give you an idea
of the
average number of downloads for free vs. priced
books, so you can more easily make a decision on how to best approach the promotion for your
book.
The typical American adult read or listened to 5
books in the past year, and the
average for all adults was 12
books.1 Neither the mean nor median
number of books read has changed significantly over the past few years.
For example, HarperCollins limits the
number of times and ebook can be checked out to twenty - six loans, a
number it arrived at based on the
average life span
of a print library
book.
A Pew study, released in April
of this year, found that «the
average reader
of eBooks says she has read 24
books (the mean
number) in the past 12 months, compared with an
average of 15
books by a non-eBook consumer.»
If you think I'm being unnecessarily gloomy here, Mark Coker, founder and CEO
of Smashwords says that, for most writers, the
average number of e
books sold per title is 100.
Here's a question I've been asked a
number of times: What's the
average income from self - publishing a
book?
I'm much more interested in knowing other
numbers, like: •
average monthly unit sales (not free downloads) in other formats • recipients on your email mailing list • frequency
of your emails to that list • total
books you've written
These
numbers show, on
average, the competitiveness
of a
book idea.
Averages don't tell the whole story when we looked at the 100Kers the maximum
number of books was 63 and the minimum was 7.
This makes the
average pledge per person very high, much more than the same
number of supporters would be giving to Digital Manga if they were buying the
books off the shelf.
The
average of 250
books is tossed out as the usual
number (and how valid is that anymore??)
My best sales period (tripled my monthly
average) was immediately after: (1) Last year's Labor Day Sale, organized within this group, which had very few
books on it, so potential readers weren't overwhelmed by the sheer
number of books, plus it was widely shared.