But obviously my personal observations are not as professional and insightful as those provided by Mike Shatzkin, who suggests DBW's
bestselling ebook lists «deserve to be treated with respect and analyzing what they tell us is worth the effort».
As Shatzkin sees it, the most interesting finding out of DBW's
bestselling ebook lists is that even among those ebooks at lower price ranges such as $ 0.00 - $ 2.99 and US$ 3.00 - $ 7.99, the big six publishers dominate.
And I think of Mister Maker's words whenever I check out the weekly
bestselling ebook lists provided by Digital Book World (DBW).
It's held there for around a year now, with mild fluctuations (the overall
bestselling ebook list on Amazon averages 35 % self pub, because the top ten titles in each genre tend to be more trad than self).
Not exact matches
I share resources, tips and tools for writers atWritersBucketList.com, and I have self - published two collections of essays, a variety of infoproducts and the Amazon
Bestselling ebook A Writer's Bucket
List.
Bestselling thriller
ebook author James Patterson was at the very top of the
list, making over 70 million dollars.
Despite the
list of worthy authors whose titles are currently finding top spots in the Kindle store thanks to their publications as Kindles Singles — and many of the
bestselling Kindle Singles are in the top 100 for all Kindle
ebooks — Blum is always on the lookout for writers who haven't published as much elsewhere, either traditionally or digitally, in order to bring their poignant works to light for Kindle readers.
June E-Book Preview
list is now available on our site, if you want a definitive look at all of the
bestselling ebooks to be released this month for E-Readers, check it out.
PubIt was a program launched last year that allows authors to submit their
eBooks to the Barnes and Noble online ebookstore and be
listed side by side with
bestselling authors.
I've been publishing science fiction on Kindle myself for several years now, and I maintain a
list of the
bestselling science fiction
ebooks available free on Kindle.
Now, the head of the Douglas County Libraries has come up with a creative solution by publishing each month the price
list for
bestselling ebooks that libraries are being charged by publishers, prices which are sometimes as high as the hundreds of percents higher than for print editions.
Inexpensive access to print - on - demand uploading has allowed authors to have a bookstore - quality edition of their titles in print, and platforms like KDP and NookPress have made it possible to
list self - published
ebooks alongside their
bestselling, traditional counterparts.
This could easily be so if their
bestselling ebooks, which undoubtedly make up most of their sales, are all
listed for over $ 9.99.
Here are ten of the many secrets I've learned while designing, publishing and promoting
ebooks for a long
list of New York Times and USA Today
bestselling authors.
For further analysis of
eBook sales, please consult the newest
eBook bestselling lists from Digital Book World.
-- http://janefriedman.com/2013/04/02/amazon-kdp-select — New York Times
bestselling novelist C J Lyons goes into the pros and cons of
listing your
ebooks with Kindle Select.
Meaning that, instead of a generic global
list of
bestselling titles, the
eBooks that sell well through each of the bookstore websites mimic the types of books that local bookstore would be selling.
Currently, some of the top 5 authors in the
bestselling list include Charlaine Harris, Stieg Larsson, Stephenie Meyer, James Patterson, and Nora Roberts; each have sold more than 500,000 Kindle
ebooks.
If you want to discover the
bestselling ebooks published by authors on their own, here's an easy to follow
list.