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I really did — those two big ebook sales played havoc with my resolution to cut back on the book buying!

I was half expecting my numbers to go down from December since everyone said the holiday rush is what was behind the big ebook sales.

I get it, that is what is driving the big eBook sales now.

Amazon is running a big ebook sale on over 600 titles through June 15th.

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Why are publishers putting most of their effort into designing ebooks for the iPad when Apple is only their third biggest sales channel?

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Also, ebook sales may be flat or dropping at the big publishing houses, mostly because they have raised prices since the return of agency pricing.

Yes the ebook sales of the big 5 publishers are dropping but that is self inflicted.

They make up only 38 % of Canadian ebook purchases, and that's the country where they are holding their ground best; in the US, the Big Five now account for barely 26 % of all ebook sales.

No matter what kind of book you're publishing, ebook sales will probably be your biggest numbers.

Since 2007, she has been an author - marketer who has helped indie authors, as well as the «Big 5» book publishers, reach new readers, increase ebook sales and continue sustained platform growth.

While traditional publishers (actually, the top end publishers) are fighting over business and legal issues, like any big business, you adapt and work with what works — eBooks still represent a minority in sales, but it is rapidly catching up to print, and by all accounts, has already passed hardcover (which has been in decline in a slow death since the advent of paperbacks and trade paperbacks in the 40s and 50s).

Five of the biggest publishers were so worried about the impact of ebooks on their hardcover sales that they risked an antitrust lawsuit in an effort to control the retail price of ebook bestsellers by linking their prices to the price of hardbacks.

Last year it was reported that the Big Five publishers — Penguin Random House, Macmillan, HarperCollins, Hachette and Simon & Shuster — accounted for 16 per cent of ebooks on Amazon and self - published novels represented 31 per cent of sales on Kindle.

If this was just print books it would be a big hit but not like if it included ebook revenue where Kindle is 60 plus percent of the ebook sales.

The high pricing strategies of big publishing in response to this dominance appear to be reducing mainstream ebook sales.

In less than two years, in fact, the market share of paid unit sales between indie (mainly self - publishing, but includes small presses) and Big 5 eBooks has more than inverted.

Founded in 2012, we're working hard to prevent businesses from giving up most of their profits to the big names of eBook publishing, and instead give them the ability to launch their own sales platform.

The bigger issue is that, just as in the bad old days of music sales, where songs were DRM» ed (copy protected), commercial ebooks today are copy - protedted.

Don't forget that before agency pricing, big publishers set the list price of ebooks and collected about half of that price as a royalty from Amazon on every sale.

While Amazon originally worked under the wholesale model, which afforded the retailer the opportunity to sell ebooks at less than their cost in order to push sales of their Kindle e-readers, the alleged collusion between Apple and five of the Big Six publishers actually refers to their switch to an agency pricing model, which allowed publishers to set the price of the ebooks for the retailers.

In addition, sales figures in The Canadian Book Market do not include ebook sales, nor online sales of print books, so the overall book market may be healthier than reflected.Although Indigo suffered some big loses, the company is still bullish on their future.

While print sales are an important revenue source for publishers and traditional authors, indie authors and debut traditional authors are showing an even bigger lag behind their ebook sales in terms of income.

First, ebooks sold better in 2013 by numbers of total sales, but actually resulted in less overall revenue than they have in the past; this may stem from the understanding of where ebook pricing should fall, and the fact that Amazon was able to discount ebooks again after the stripping away of agency pricing following the DOJ lawsuit against the Big Five publishers.

Publishers will try to hold the line on their 25 % net ebook royalty structures, which means big authors will see their royalties suffer as prices drop and as the unit sales advantage of low prices decreases, and as the disadvantage of high prices increases.

I do not see how since Apple wants a big cut in ebook sales.

After six months of depressed ebook sales, the Big 5 announced that the ebook market was slowing down.

Their profit margins on hardcovers are bigger than paperbacks and ebooks, ergo it's in their interest to protect hardcover sales.

However, the 2016 Global ebook report shows that for some of the big publishers in Germany, ebooks already make up more than 10 % and even up to 15 % of their total book sales (source).

From commentator Mike Shatzkin in The Publishing World Is Changing, But There Is One Big Done That Has Not Yet Barked (Mike likes those long headlines) to Thad McIlroy in Why Are Ebook Sales Falling?

While the publishing climate is certainly changing, I think as long as sales are tracked through traditional outlets and publishers continue to put the most emphasis using Bookscan as a primary sales reference point — versus an author's statement that the book has sold 3,000 copies in back - of - the - room sales or as ebooks — big publishers are going to be wary of publishing authors that are showing, say, 100 copies sold.

For our first season we'll be hitting big ticket topics such as a commentary on the current publishing landscape, how to optimize your book metadata for sales, how to sell your book to indie bookstores, ebooks vs. print books, and how much it costs to self - publish.

The Big 5 raised their ebook prices, created an artificial resurgence in print sales of their books, and thought they proved print - is - not - dead.

After all, you can perfect your craft, invest in professional editing and covers, get your manuscript converted to a professional - looking eBook or print layout, and distribute it to some of the biggest online retailers on the planet — but if no one knows it's there, the sales won't come.

If you've written an eBook, you may have been shocked to discover just how big of a percentage places like Amazon and other publishers want to retain from the sale of your eBook.

Isn't that interesting that your print book sales are bigger than your eBook sales.

It will be interesting to see what the other big publishing houses decide to do, I have a feeling your going to see the companies who do nt push for equivalent ebook to physical book pricing will have higher sales and in the end make more money off of ebooks AND «dead tree» books as well thanks to word of mouth from ebook readers.

I agree with what Andreys saying, and I do feel the big publishers who are pushing for this are working togather to try and wring more profits out of ebook sales and / or push people back to buying more dead tree copies.

In the Writers» and Artists» Yearbook 2017, Philip Jones argues that as growth from the big publishers slows, «the market itself continues to grow — mostly via small publisher ebook sales or those derived through self - publishers.»

Kindle is the big leader in eBook sales (having been around for almost 5 years now), but iPad is catching up with currently nearly a quarter of all eBook sales at last count.

I can believe the «Big 5» publishers would see lower ebook sales since they charge so much, but there are way more options available than what they offer.

The big five publishers in the last calendar year have managed to hang on to more than half of all ebook sales at Apple and Barnes & Noble Nook.

One of the big proponents of falling ebook sales is primarily due to the price.

When the Big 5 price many ebooks like this «Illidan, World of Warcraft eBook price $ 13.99 & hardback price $ 7.34 why are they surprised that eBook sales are down.

That said, I see a market opportunity for the Big 5 publishers to band together to form an ebook sales platform that would feature * only * corporate - published books.

The bottom line is that Amazon's eBook market is not yet big enough to cover the losses the top selling indie / self - pubbed authors lose out on by not being widely distributed in physical book stores in the U.S. Of course, this disadvantage is mitigated over time because once the trade publishers stop pushing their new releases, these books» sales typically decline, but indie / self - pubbed authors can keep their market pushes going indefinitely, and they can publish new books more frequently than once a year.

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