This time I've decided to provide you with two lists: one sorted by estimated revenue for all games sold in 2015 and one sorted
by number of copies sold for games released in 2015.
I'm operating under the assumption that book ranking is affected
by the number of copies sold; is «normalized pages read» going to replace or supplement the book ranking?
Bestsellers are determined
by the number of copies sold through the Archway Publishing Bookstore over the past month (retail channel sales and direct sales made by an author do NOT count toward this figure).
Not exact matches
Carrying the Chinese title Be Yourself,
by the end
of August the book had
sold 320,000
copies — a huge
number, even in a country
of 1.3 billion.
During the school year 1963 — 1964 some 250,000
copies of the three texts were
sold, a
number sufficient to reach 12 percent
of the high school biology students in the U.S.. All three have been offered to and accepted
by state adoption boards in Georgia and Florida.
Hyrule Warriors was expected to be something
of a best seller in Japan, but as we saw
by last week's Media Create
numbers, the game only managed to
sell just shy
of 70k
copies during its first week available on the market.
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According to Wikipedia «Best -
selling» refers to the estimated
number of copies sold of all fiction books written or co-written
by an author.
«Small presses make their profits
by selling books to consumers, rather than
selling services to authors or
selling a small
number of copies to the author's friends.»
If you're looking to get your book into the hands
of the greatest
number of readers
by selling the most
copies, $ 0.99 is
by far the best price point to achieve that goal.
Plus, the average
number of books
sold by a self - published author is less than 80
copies.
By the end
of 2012, «Loose Ends» had
sold over 82,000
copies and, as
of the writing
of this bio, was the
number one bestselling book in Amazon's ranking
of Ghost Stories in the Book / Literature & Fiction / Genre Fiction / Horror / Ghosts section and the
number two in the same area in the Kindle eBooks section.
The Solitude
of Prime
Numbers,
by Paolo Giordano, has
sold more than 1 million
copies in Italy, and Pamela Dorman — the force behind The Secret Life
of Bees and Saving CeeCee Honeycutt — snagged the American rights for her eponymous imprint at Viking.
The
number of copies sold also rose
by 5 per cent in 2015, to 39 million (from 37.3 million in 2014).
In 2015, the
number of copies sold also grew only slightly,
by around 700,000 to 15.21 million.
Fair contracts should stipulate exactly what information must be displayed in the royalty statement: the
number of copies sold and returned; the list price; the net price; the royalty rate; the amount
of royalties accumulated; the amount
of reserve for returns withheld; the gross amount received
by the publisher pursuant to each license along with
copies of statements received
by the publisher from its licensees during the accounting period; itemized deductions; the
number of copies printed, bound, and given away; and the
number of saleable
copies on hand.
Their first color e-reader
sold a tremendous amount
of copies during the holiday season, but were edged out
of the
number 2 position
by Pandigital.
Go speak to the
number of female romance writers who are pulling in a six or seven figure income, many who started
by selling a few
copies, and then write a balanced article with thoughts from both sides and from the men who support them whether that is a financial or moral support.
So I divide $ 350.00
by $ 3.25 to get the
number of copies that need to
sell to break even on all production costs.
The publishers will focus on a release date
of the book where the hope is a lot
of copies will
sell very quickly, then when that date has faded into the past, the book will be basically tossed out, reverted back to the author, considered worthless to the publisher if it is not
selling some magic
number of copies set
by a computer buried in some bunker somewhere.
FACT: Small presses make their profits
by selling books to consumers, rather than
selling services to authors or
selling a small
number of copies to the author's friends.»
Whether or not your next book is published depends on the
numbers: how many
copies of your first book were
sold by bookshops.
They may
sell more
copies than the previous sad self - publishing tales, i.e. five
copies sold, including two to Mom, but
by both
numbers and quality, most
of this surge
of self - published books will be commercial failures.
The real truth is that most agents go in for a two - book deal at the get - go, and that most publishing houses are ready to
sell through the
number of copies they need to
sell to make the book a «success» in their eyes
by the time they even offer the contract.
@ctein: «Considering that the
number of copies sold may vary
by a factor
of almost 1000, there isn't a lot
of variation in price for books
of comparable bulk and construction.»
This can be dangerous — it's easy to get tricked
by the savings and order more books than you could possibly
sell — but if you have serious plans to hit the con circuit or otherwise know you can regularly move a small
number of books, increasing your print run
by 100 or 150
copies can be worth it if it lets you bring the cover price down, even if
selling through them takes a few years.
A dishonest vanity publisher makes money not
by selling copies of a book, but
by charging clients as much as possible to print an unspecified
number of copies of that book.
I do not think that Brawl being developed
by a different studio or having a lame singleplayer mode is why it
sold more than Melee — I think it probably would have
sold roughly the same
number of copies even if it had really decent singleplayer content
However, this
number is absolutely dwarfed
by Red Dead Redemption, which has
sold nine million
copies since its release in May 2010 along with another two million
copies of the Undead Nightmare expansion disc.
Next to having pre-order
numbers that were «four times» that
of the first game, Left 4 Dead 2 has so far outsold its year - old predecessor
by more than two - to - one, Valve says, with last week's stronger than expected Black Friday sales being a contributing factor to the over 2 million retail
copies the perfected zombie apocalypse has
sold through.
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Numbers were revealed and it was shown that Capcom had
sold 1.4 million
copies of the beloved fighting game
by May 8th 2016.