And with our latest data set, we estimate that self - published authors now account for 31 % of total
daily ebook sales regardless of genre.
Thus the title - level data used in our analysis includes roughly 33 % of
all daily ebook sales in the U.S. No other industry survey or ebook market - size estimate comes close to this level of accuracy or detail.
Cost & effort vs diminshing returns, mainly — a million - title dataset costs 5x as much to capture as a 200K one, while only incrementally increasing the percentage of Amazon's
daily ebook sales the data set covers.
Here at AE, over the last seven quarters we have steadily built up a comprehensive database of quarterly cross-sectional snapshots of the Kindle store, each of which captures between 45 % and 60 % of Amazon's
daily ebook sales.
Author Earnings doesn't tend to give the Top 100 ebooks disproportionate attention because in total, they represent a relatively small fraction (between 13 % and 14 %) of Amazon's overall
daily ebooks sales.
Not exact matches
The story ignited a media firestorm in the U.K, with major news outlets like the
Daily Mail, The Guardian, and the BBC reporting on the «
sales of sick
ebooks.»
Booktastik offers many great services that will ensure your
ebook sale, free - for - a-limited-time
ebook, new release or giveaway / competition will be seen by thousands of readers, either in our
daily email to thousands of subscribers, on Facebook, or on our website.
Granted, they're working out a few bugs, but getting a
daily snapshot of my
ebook sales is something I'd gladly pay for.
In an AuthorEarnings.com report from Hugh Howey, a data - scraping survey of a snapshot of the top 50,000 bestselling
ebooks on Amazon indicates that genre fiction titles accounted for 69 percent of those
daily unit
sales.
This post is updated
daily to list all the
ebook reader
sales through the 2010 holiday season, including Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals and any other promotion retailers can think up between now and the end of December that involves ereaders.
The author portal also offers useful tools, like a
sales heat map that authors can use to geo - target their marketing efforts and, for Amazon Publishing authors, a beta program that lists
daily Kindle
ebook unit
sales.
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Daily Amazon
Ebook sales 1 May 2015: For Indie authors just over 350,000 total ebook sales and for the Big 5 Publishers just over 250,000 in ebook s
Ebook sales 1 May 2015: For Indie authors just over 350,000 total
ebook sales and for the Big 5 Publishers just over 250,000 in ebook s
ebook sales and for the Big 5 Publishers just over 250,000 in
ebook s
ebook sales.
A one - day Kindle
Daily Deal can drive enough
sales to propel a title onto the New York Times (s NYT)
ebook bestseller list for just one week.
eReaderIQ has plenty of competition from other Internet tools for tracking prices for Kindle titles, including Kindle Nation
Daily's own
eBook Tracker, which enables you to see a graph of a Kindle title's
sales rank and price over the past year.
Perhaps traditional publishers are better at gaining international visibility for their
ebooks with a significant number of
daily sales.
This new system is constantly learning and reevaluating what constitutes a
sale for a particular book /
ebook, and it's accuracy is increasing
daily.
Our October AE data captured 54.6 % of Amazon's total
daily unit
sales: 200,000 of their bestselling
ebooks, which accounted for 580,500 Kindle units out of Amazon's roughly 1,064,000 - unit
daily total.
The return to agency pricing by two of the Big Five has had no measurable effect on the Big Five's share of titles on Amazon's
daily -
sales - based
ebook bestseller lists.
In another year Author Earnings will show indies take up close to 40 % of Amazon's
daily ebook unit
sales and close to 30 % of the $
sales.
What we see from the graphs above is that all the reporting lately on the plateauing or decline in
ebook adoption is certainly true for major publishers, whose numbers are being used as if they represent the broader market, but their
daily unit
sales are less than a third of the total market.
The increasing prevalence of lower - priced Big Five titles has had no measurable effect on the Big Five's share of titles on Amazon's
daily -
sales - based
ebook bestseller lists.
The Barnes and Noble Nook
Daily Find is having a NOOK Bundles
Sale: Choose from over 100
eBook bundles — fiction favorites, swoon - worthy romance, epic fantasy & more — starting at $ 1.99 each.
For
daily unit
sales, the survey shows that at least a third of all paid
ebook unit
sales on Amazon.com are indie self - published
ebooks but the real number is almost certainly several percent higher.