Sentences with phrase «book sales decrease»

Assuming comparable profits per book (flawed, but bear with me), publisher benefit if the total sales increase, even if the print book sales decrease.

By this calculation book sales decreased by 12 % in just the last two years.

Not exact matches

While magazines can't be a large percentage of Indigo's print sales, that trend suggests that book sales may have decreased by even less than 4.6 %.

While eBook manga sales is constantly expanding, print book sales including manga and magazines have decreased in Japan.

The intensity of this reaction has died down to a quiet murmur since consumers realized that they also like the convenience and affordability of eBooks, but the continued presence of the eBook vs. Print book debate has established one thing: print books, although decreasing significantly in sales, aren't going to disappear in the near future.

Publishers are not too concerned right now with the decrease in Christian book sales, whether its print or... [Read more...]

The decrease in tangible book sales is partly attributed to less books being printed.

Publishers are not too concerned right now with the decrease in Christian book sales, whether its print or digital.

I wonder if the dramatic increase in audio book sales were part of the reason for the decrease in ebook sales.

The decrease in Christian book sales has just led to Family Christian Bookstores filing for Bankruptcy — http://goodereader.com/blog/digital-publishing/family-christian-bookstore-files-for-bankruptcy-protection

I would be willing to bet my bottom dollar that 99.9999 % (I might be missing a few nines) of all indie authors would love to have the problem of decreased sales due to this legal battle because that would mean they have a BIG 5 contract and are selling a lot of books.

The e-book segment, rights sales and co-productions have all experienced growth, but the Italian readership has dropped off despite decreasing book prices.

Anyone could make the argument that the decrease in book sales could be caused by other factors like: More time in the marketplace, negative reviews or increased competition.

The issue extends beyond the troubling decrease in independent bookstores — which now account for less than 10 percent of book sales.

Because of the intensely collectible and visual nature of comics, far greater than CDs or books of course, comics sales are likely to remain far more dependent on physical sales than those other media, while the successful prices of digital comics are, in my opinion, almost assuredly going to decrease consistently over time.

The plan is to reverse some of the long - held misconceptions that ebook lending could lead to increased piracy and decreased sales, a belief that has already been demonstrated to be false by Kobo at Digital Book World back in 2012 when Michael Tamblyn presented sales data for Suzanne Collins» Hunger Games trilogy.

By the way, the notion that e-book sales are declining is utter nonsense, and based merely on numbers from the biggest publishers, who due to their pricing policies are receiving a steadily decreasing portion of book sales.

The combined $ 2.60 billion total of print sales of manga from both compiled book volumes and magazines saw a 9.3 % decrease from last year.

Author Ilona Andrews, who has been a best seller in paperback, released the 11th Kate Daniels novel in hardcover, Magic Breaks, in late July (Penguin / Ace; Recorded Books) and admits on her blog that she feared the shift would decrease sales.

While there is no clear answer yet, opponents of Digital Rights Management have demonstrated that stripping away the «protection» on ebooks has actually led to an increase in book sales and a decrease in piracy, as consumers are often willing to pay for access to a book.

Comparable store sales decreased 4.9 %, as declines in non-book categories outpaced improved book trends during the quarter.

Today on the show they talk about how the Hachette / Amazon contract negotiations will likely play out and how authors have seen a dramatic decrease in book sales The RT Booklovers... [Read more...]

More recently, the percentage of self - published books compared to other e-books rose, but the overall number of e-books sold decreased, meaning the impact of self - publishing on overall book sales remains at less than 10 % of sales.

Although I would argue that traditional publishers» net profit on hardcovers is probably slimmer than it used to be, given the growing costs of warehousing, shipping, and manufacturing even as hardcover book sales are decreasing.

NEW YORK (TheStreet)-- Amazon (AMZN) has signed a new deal with book publisher Hachette, ending a months - long standoff that resulted in sharply decreased sales for the publisher and a public relations mess for the world's largest bookseller.

At the annual press conference on June 9th 2015, the German Publishers and Booksellers Association presented economic data and key statistics about the German book market in 2014, which, despite a slight decrease in overall sales, remained stable and even showed a few bright spots.

Ask yourself: «Will this decision increase or decrease my Kindle book sales?»

My editor wrote my agent last month to say that print sales had decreased (I've no doubt... they're only a fraction of my digital sales for my self - published books) and Penguin Random House wanted to stop printing the series.

They also have started to leave a number of negative comments about the integrity of the book, to hopefully decrease the author's sales.

If you can't have a list price of $ 14, you won't be able to compete with those that can, unless you sell a sh #tload of books — the odds of which decrease given that the algorithms that are the kingmakers won't tout you, and so your sales will be meager.

Even better: The combination of decreasing hardware prices over time and a rise in content sales — think apps, movies, books, music — will help the product line even more, according to Markkanen:

From 2013 to 2016, ebook sales will grow from $ 4 billion to over $ 10 billion while physical book sales will actually decrease!

Actually, SFReader is quite correct... In every case where it has been used, DRM has been shown to decrease sales and actually tends to * increase * piracy - because pirates see DRMed books as a challenge, they are more apt to put them up on torrents and such.

As the sales of digital books are growing, they're causing a related decrease in print sales.

«The book publishing industry has entered a period of long - term decline because of the rising sales of e-book readers,» reads an April 28 research note from IHS iSuppli, which predicted a decrease in book revenue at a compound annual rate...

And while movies based on comic books soar at box offices, comic books sales have decreased significantly and they can't seem to figure out why.

It's led to comic books being worthless as collector's items, killed the back - issue industry, and led to markedly decreased monthly sales.

I'll remind everyone about the huge decrease in sales the publisher had after the last Twilight book came out.

It does not, for example, tell us what change in sales John Scalzi could expect if his latest book was priced $ 9.99 instead of $ 14.99; it is possible (though unlikely) that sales would actually decrease (marketing wonks call this the «discount effect «-RRB-.

Jonathan Stolper (formerly of Nielsen) said at Digital Book World in January 2017, «Price is the most important and most influential barrier to entry for ebook buyers and the increase in price coincided with the decrease in sales.»

So even though folks buy more books, decreasing the price on ebooks won't necessarily translate into more sales or more profits for the authors; instead, the money that would have gone into buying the book may be used for other forms of entertainment, such as eating or having running water.

In August, a publishing industry survey showed paperback book sales had decreased by 14 percent since 2008.

The Russian book market has seen a couple of troublesome years recently with sales decreasing and big publishing chains closing down.

On one hand there is an obvious decrease in per sale / read profit, but there's also the potential for more money is more people borrow the book.

The sales decrease was largely due to lower traffic, as well as the decline in coloring books and artist supplies — a reversal of last year's phenomenon — and the comparison to last year's best - selling album by Adele — the largest selling CD in our history — which combined accounted for approximately one third of the sales decline.

Book categories decreased sales by $ 35.3 million, or 1.5 %, primarily on lower sales of Trade and Juvenile titles, partially offset by strong sales of coloring books.

This helped the huge book in ebook sales and caused the huge decrease in physical sales.

In an open letter to librarians explaining its switch to limit the number of check - outs a library can offer on an e-book, HarperCollins said that its previous policy of «selling e-books to libraries in perpetuity, if left unchanged, would undermine the emerging e-book eco-system, hurt the growing e-book channel, place additional pressure on physical bookstores, and in the end lead to a decrease in book sales and royalties paid to authors.9 Similarly, Simon & Schuster's executive vice president and chief digital officer Elinor Hirschhorn says that the company does not make its e-books available to libraries at all because «[w] e're concerned that authors and publishers are made whole by library e-lending and that they aren't losing sales that they might have made in another channel.»

Remember, these are still sales estimates, with accuracy decreasing for books selling more than 100 copies a month.

CEO William Lynch recently called retail stores «our biggest competitive advantage,» yet it's unclear how well this efforts are working: Store sales decreased by 1 percent in the quarter, and physical book sales declined, though the company said those sales «were positively affected by the liquidation of the remaining Borders stores.»