Thanks again for the great feedback from authors to improve the accuracy of NovelRank
book sales estimates on Amazon Kindle books.
In all cases, including the future, NovelRank is underestimated
book sales estimates on Kindle Edition books.
So, I dug back into
the book sales estimates and came up with 3 examples.
Disclaimer: NovelRank
book sales estimates are based on fluctuations of sales rank and thus there are many factors (another blog post coming soon) that can cause for more sales to occur than is estimated by NovelRank.
Not exact matches
This might include your savings account, investments — including 401 (k) s, IRAs and other retirement accounts — the Kelley Blue
Book value of your car and the
estimated value of your home (which you can get from sites like Zillow or recent
sales of similar properties).
(A significant amount has also come from large donors, including Offit, who has donated all the royalties from the
sales of his
books challenging the anti-vaccine movement to ASF — an amount he
estimates in tens of thousands of dollars.)
Overall, when other automakers report July results later today, industry
sales are forecast to fall 5.4 percent to 6.2 percent from strong July 2016 levels, based on
estimates from Edmunds, Kelley Blue
Book, J.D. Power and LMC Automotive.
Large pickup, compact crossover, and compact car
sales are projected to set the pace in August, Kelley Blue
Book estimates.
Using
sales information for the similar
books you identified and the wealth of other information available in your library and on the Internet,
estimate the likely
sales for a
book such as yours.
In that slot, you are making regular
sales, and the online Kindle
books sales estimators will probably give you a reasonable
estimate of how you are doing.
Note: Numbers are an
estimate and ONLY reflect
book sales at Amazon.
We can bring your
sales estimates and
sales rank data directly to you via RSS feeds, available for individual
books or for a user account (multiple
books).
We
estimate Kindle has a 95 % market share of e-book
sales in the UK and this is having a damaging effect... Consider the struggles of Barnes & Noble and the Nook platform, the problems of the established Txtr in Germany, and the decision here of Tesco to pull out of Blinkbox
Books.»
In 2005, industry sources
estimated that about 50 % of all
books signed at BEA were for
sale on Ebay within the week - some within only a few minutes of being signed!
PricewaterhouseCoopers
estimates «consumer eBooks will drive $ 8.2 billion in
sales by 2017, surpassing projected print
book sales, which it thinks will shrink by more than half during that period.»
The following graph is based on my actual
sales plus a couple points solved by ratio from my page on
estimating book sales from the Amazon
sales ranking.
For Kindle
books selling as frequently as 7
books per day, the accuracy is up to 95 % for
sales estimates.
Ahead of his or her presentation at Digital
Book World (#DBW16) on March 9, a look at «Data Guy's»
sales -
estimate project, Author Earnings, by Porter Anderson, Editor - in - Chief of Publishing Perspectives.
The genre had an
estimated $ 1.368 billion in
sales in 2011, and accounted for 13.4 % of the consumer
book market.
Estimates are that well over 2 billion dollars in potential
book sales revenue will be lost in the current year due to piracy and other forms of content infringement.
Fair warning, there has been notably less data about Kindle
book sales history and
sales rank tracking in the past few months, so there will still be some adjustments in the coming months to the
sales estimates that are generated.
«We
estimate that the market for digital
books in India will shift to in access of 2 % of total volume of
sales of all
books, in six months,» he said.
Industry
estimates put Barnes & Noble's market share of print -
book sales at 15 % to 18 %.
Sales of print books continue to climb, with unit sales up 1.9 % in 2017 over 2016, according to NPD Bookscan (which captures an estimated 80 - 85 % of total print sales): 687.2 million books were sold in every format, up from 674.1 million in
Sales of print
books continue to climb, with unit
sales up 1.9 % in 2017 over 2016, according to NPD Bookscan (which captures an estimated 80 - 85 % of total print sales): 687.2 million books were sold in every format, up from 674.1 million in
sales up 1.9 % in 2017 over 2016, according to NPD Bookscan (which captures an
estimated 80 - 85 % of total print
sales): 687.2 million books were sold in every format, up from 674.1 million in
sales): 687.2 million
books were sold in every format, up from 674.1 million in 2016.
The
estimate for total
book sales in the U.S. in 2011 was $ 27.1 billion.
Americans spend nearly a quarter of their time online on social networking sites and blogs, according to the latest Nielsen research, and the most conservative
estimates predict eBooks will represent at least 10 % of
book sales by the end of the year, but one question that's not been clearly answered yet is whether there's any -LSB-...]
Adding its own total to the number of print
books sold in 2015, the Bookseller
estimates that there were 276.2 m print and digital
books sold in 2015, 2.9 % up on its 2014
estimate, with digital accounting for 30.9 % of all volume
sales, down from 32.7 %.
Tamblyn admitted that January was Kobo's best e-
book sales month ever and
estimated that e-books make up 18 % of Canadian
book purchasing.
Korteko's multiple counts stem from underreporting an
estimated 10,000
book sales to a total of about fifteen authors.
Surging ebook
sales now represent an
estimated 16.3 per cent of the overall
book market in Canada, a figure that caught even some industry watchers by surprise.
It includes
estimated sales numbers, competing
books,
sales recommendations and much more.
Although she thinks the model could still work, she cautions readers that it is not capable of precise comparisons Although Howey's method of
estimating book sales based on bestseller rankings is creative, it is no substitute for actual
sales data.
As for the actual findings of the report, it was interesting to see how the number of copies was calculated for various
books based on
sales rank along with the
estimated royalties (something you could probably spend all lot of time trying to figure out and do very poorly).
In our walkup to The FutureBook digital publishing community's #FutureChat, I had written that the analysis, while declaring the staggered International Standard
Book Number (ISBN) a goner, had failed to call out Amazon for not reporting its majority share of ebook
sales (
estimated at 67 percent in the US market) so that the industry - at - large can «see» and quantify itself.
Study the market carefully, looking at rival titles,
sales estimates and effort required to research and write the
book.
Amazon
Book Sales Calculator is useful for your own books, as well as for research: it estimates how many sales a book is making per day and mo
Book Sales Calculator is useful for your own books, as well as for research: it estimates how many sales a book is making per day and m
Sales Calculator is useful for your own
books, as well as for research: it
estimates how many
sales a book is making per day and m
sales a
book is making per day and mo
book is making per day and month.
That's when
sales managers and marketing managers start
estimating how many copies they think the
book will sell, and therefore how much they can offer as an advance.
The app allows you to view historical data for each
book with 7 days of daily
sales estimates history and 24 hours of hourly
sales rank history, specifically.
On conservative
estimate, if only 5 % of one year's primary
book sales wound up in the secondary market annually, that is 70 million
books a year4 being resold.
In the graph below, you can see the
estimated sales revenue from the entire
book market in Germany from 2005 - 2015 along with some of the new media and technology releases during this time.
I also keep an
estimated monthly and annual
sales projection both for income and number of
books sold.
Industry statistics from the Business of Consumer
Book Publishing 2013 show that the romance genre as a whole generated $ 1.438 billion in
sales in 2012 and
estimated at $ 1.350 billion for 2013.
With almost 400,000
books self - published in the US last year, Coker posited that indie authors represented 15 % of the ebook market for 2013, and that a «fairly conservative»
estimate would give them more than a third (35 %) of the overall trade
book market in seven years, and 50 % of ebook
sales by the year 2020.
UBS analysts
estimate that e-books account for about 30 percent of the U.S.
book market and 20 percent of
sales in Britain but are minuscule elsewhere.
In Howey's data, 944 authors out of the 3,439 authors of the almost 7000 Amazon best - sellers (with
estimated sales greater than one
book per day) were
estimated to have earned above federal minimum wage ($ 7.25 * 8 hours = $ 58 / day) from their best - selling
books on data collection day.
In its annual «Entertainment & Media Outlook,» set to be released Wednesday, PwC (PricewaterhouseCoopers)
estimates that trade (consumer, not educational or academic) ebooks will drive $ 8.2 billion in
sales by 2017 — surpassing projected print
book sales, which it thinks will shrink by more than half during that period.
There are many factors that go into the curation process, of which number of reviews, number of titles, whether your
books are in a series,
estimated sales figures, cover art,
book description, current genre saturation, library interest, and overall availability are just a few.
The Voldemort of the
book business not only controls an
estimated 60 percent of e-
book sales and a significant chunk of print
book sales, it has now become a publisher, establishing imprints for everything from romance novels to children's picture
books and putting out more than 100
books of its own in 2011.
It is also now attempting to
estimate for
sales occurring when a
book holds its rank (e.g. 700 last hour, 705 next hour) without improving.
In the last 6 months, NovelRank has made a large number of improvements, including: Research on
sales rank myths, improved kindle
sales estimate accuracy, improved social networking tie - ins,
book analysis, CSV download and RSS feeds for user pages, sorting of
books on user pages, added Amazon.co.uk Kindle
book tracking, worldwide snapshot on user pages, and tons of little bug fixes and tweaks to speed up the website.