2011 was not a great year for print book sales, with all 5
categories of print book sales down from the year before, with mass - market paperbacks predictably getting hammered the hardest, as they are the most likely to be replaced by e-book sales.
Not exact matches
There are dozens
of categories, debts and credits applied based on
sales,
printing, shipping, storage and
book orders for conventions.
Even including the children's / young adult
categories,
printed books totaled $ 215.2 M for the month, giving e-
books a staggering 29.56 % share
of total trade
book sales.
But connecting with and conforming to the different requirements
of so many retailers is not easy, and 50 - 90 %
of book sales are still
print books sold through traditional retailers (percent varies depending on subject
category).
In the first five months
of 2015, publishers» revenues from e-
books sales fell 10 per cent to $ 610.8 million, according to the Association
of American Publishers, compared to a 2.3 per cent drop in
print book sales in the fiction, non fiction and religious
categories (that the industry calls trade
books.)
The author (in most
categories) must be an American citizen, the
book must be available for
sale in
print, it must have first been published that year, and the person submitting the
book has to send four copies
of the
book and a... [Read more...]
Ahead of the seminar, Meynink said: & ldquo; There has been over-performance in the growth in e-book sales in the romance and science fiction categories, when compared to the market share of print book sales, and this correlates with a fall in print book sales in those sectors.
-- Social media pages geared toward providing readers with discounted
books — Newsletters geared toward providing readers with discounted
books or reviews
of books at any price — Blogs that feature
books from specific
categories, discounted
books, or
book reviews — Any
print publication that reviews
books — Email lists that provide libraries with information about
books, either with or without reviews — Distributor catalogues that provide bookstores and libraries with information about
books, either with or without reviews — The algorithms that trigger «you might like» and «buyers also considered» recommendations on internet
sales sites — Consumer reviews Notice the emphasis in most
of these areas on reviews.
The author (in most
categories) must be an American citizen, the
book must be available for
sale in
print, it must have first been published that year, and the person submitting the
book has to send four copies
of the
book and a fifty dollar entry fee.
According PW,
sales of adult
print books fell 10.3 % in the first quarter
of 2016, compared to the first period
of 2015, and ebook
sales in the same
category fell 19 %.
Ahead
of the seminar, Meynink said: «There has been over-performance in the growth in e-
book sales in the romance and science fiction
categories, when compared to the market share
of print book sales, and this correlates with a fall in
print book sales in those sectors.»
That's because, according to our data in which we track top
sales of books at Amazon, highest - ranking titles in the Kindle store differ vastly than those in Amazon's standard
print -
books category.