They lump audiobooks and ebooks into a single digital category and the only the only they say is the decline in ebook sales were not as pronounce
because audiobook sales have dramatically increased.
Not exact matches
It was illegal for sighted persons to listen to LP
audiobooks from 1934 until 1948,
because publishers and authors» unions controlling royalties and rights did not want them made available for public
sale.
The publisher failed to disclose how much of their revenue was digital, which leads me to believe that ebook
sales are continuing to fall, but the overall digital decline is not as pronounced
because of
audiobooks.
Exact
audiobook sales are a bit hard to track,
because Audible the leading retail outlet does not divulge specifics and speaks in broad generalities.
The problem with this is that
because customers can order the
audiobook without a cash transaction, my ad data can't show me whether any clicks on these ads are leading to
sales.
It can be a little misleading if you mistakenly interpret the above as the median earnings mix for individual authors,
because the majority of those print
sales for both traditionally published authors and indie authors are nonfiction — generally written by a different set of authors than their fiction counterparts who make the majority of ebook and
audiobook earnings in each category.
Nowadays, possibly
because of protests against the open
sale of obscene books — especially in the UK — nearly all Kindle books and Audible
audiobooks receive one content rating or the other.