Generally, it's relatively easy to find new mass - market
bestsellers in ebook format but harder to find more specialized books and quality, literary fiction.
Not exact matches
(I just checked the top ten fiction
bestsellers on Amazon from the last New York Timesbestseller list and indeed all are priced at $ 9.99
in eBook format, with the exception of the one title noted by the WSJas not available as an
eBook.)
The most preordered book
in Audible history (Audible's Most Wanted 2017) had a phenomenal debut across
formats, hitting # 1 on the NY Times Hardcover Fiction list, # 1 on the Audible list, # 2 on the NY Times combined print /
ebook bestseller list, # 6 on the Sunday Times of London hardcover list
in the UK, and more
bestseller lists across the globe.
In the weeks that I've been putting together my ebook bestsellers breakdown, which examines the titles that are doing better in digital formats than in print and investigates how titles hit the bestseller list, one common key to success pops up over and over again: The power of a sal
In the weeks that I've been putting together my
ebook bestsellers breakdown, which examines the titles that are doing better
in digital formats than in print and investigates how titles hit the bestseller list, one common key to success pops up over and over again: The power of a sal
in digital
formats than
in print and investigates how titles hit the bestseller list, one common key to success pops up over and over again: The power of a sal
in print and investigates how titles hit the
bestseller list, one common key to success pops up over and over again: The power of a sale.
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I have
formatted over 700 books, all of which are available
in eBook stores worldwide, and many of them are full blown
bestsellers selling hundreds of thousands of copies.
When Ian Alexander's debut epic fantasy novel ONCE WE WERE KINGS first launched
in ebook format in May 2011, it instantly hit three
bestseller lists on Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.
Multi-faceted
bestseller, Consuelo Saah Baehr has been published
in hardcover by Delacourt and Simon & Schuster, and as an indie
in ebook format.
Almost all of them are
bestsellers and they are all available
in a variety of print,
eBook, and audio
formats.
As indie authors recognize this missing link
in their distribution plans, more libraries will flock to them as sources of inexpensive books (especially when it is so expensive to buy those
bestsellers in print and
ebook formats).