The publishing industry gathered together some time ago to enable a robust standard, called ONIX, that can provide remarkably rich
data about each ebook but the industry and resellers has not gotten fully behind the standard.
Ebook stores (like Amazon's Kindle Store, Apple's iBooks Store, etc.) have long gathered that kind of
data about ebook reading habits, and publishers have long wanted it for themselves.
While the majority of the AAP monthly
data about ebook revenues comes from the Big Five US trade publishers, the majority of the non-AAP ebook revenues goes to self - published ebooks and indie published ebooks.
Below the infographic you'll find a complete slide show of
data about this ebook reading study.
And now that there is
data about ebook buying, people who buy ebooks buy more ebooks than people who buy print books.
Publishers have access to sales data about their books, with services such as Nielsen BookScan and Above the Treeline (though to be fair that doesn't help too much with ebooks), but until Author Earnings there has been no centralized place for indie authors to find
data about ebook sales.
Not exact matches
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about data access and analysis to demonstrate the business value of learning.
Librarians from all over North America were in attendance, talking
about the shift to digital and participating in many sessions talking
about big
data and how libraries can get into
ebooks.
The analysis comes with a few caveats: (1) the Kindle is only one
eBook provider and is not representative of digital reading; (2) it is unknown to what degree this
data is representative of reading on the Kindle in general; (3) the
data does not currently include 90 % of the
data; and (4) without a finer breakdown of the users» demographics, the
data can only tell us so much
about what the readers are attempting to do through highlighting.
I've refreshed the
data about my offer to hand - sell
ebook copies to people until I can deploy for general release.
Jim and Bryan are back with news
about 2016 author
data, audiobook monopolies, Microsoft's new
ebook store, and more!
B) There is no
data supplied
about ebook sales to Irish customers by Apple, Amazon, Google or anyone else.
Now, they say this applies only to your «product
data» but the earlier language of the ToS makes it possible for them to apply it to everything
about your
ebook and to change the terms without reasonable notice.
Folks who disagree with my perspective will delight in learning that I have no statistical
data to support my claims
about ebooks, pricing and value.
Following up on the exciting news
about the Bowker and
Data Conversion Laboratory partnership this week, Beat Barblan met with GoodEReader to talk
about its announcement that it is also partnering with Vook to bring authors and publishers together to release the
ebook forms of their titles.
The way it handles
data can take two distinctive forms: personal information
about the user who purchased the
eBook (such as an email address) or an ID number that the distributor can use to look up the user or transaction in a database.
New
data comes in each year
about the viability of the print and
ebook markets in different regions around the world, and BookNet Canada has now released its findings for the print market in 2013.
The Association of American Publishers, which collects monthly
data from
about 1,200 publishers, said last month that
eBook sales had been flat or in decline for most of 2013.
«There's been a lot of buzz
about print books resurgence and this year's
data tells us that readers are enjoying all formats that are available to them, and that includes
eBooks and audiobooks.
Information on specific sales
data is
about e-readers and
ebooks is often hard to come by, especially from self - published authors who may not have their books listed with some of the major book tracking companies.
The way it handles
data can take two distinctive forms: personal information
about the user who purchased the
eBook (such as an email address) or an ID number that the distributor can use to look up the user or transaction in a database and is otherwise meaningless.
Of course, much of the
data is talking
about ebooks over print sales, but as Walsh's assessment from AuthorEarnings shows, print book revenue for the actual author is nothing compared to their digital income.
They discuss the analysis of reading
data, understanding core
eBook readers better, as well as some of Sinead's favorite things
about her role in the book industry.
A lot of
data was presented to the attendees
about the low numbers of
ebook sales in children's and young adult literature, although there was information that the popularity among digital editions for those readers is on the rise in the past year.
Data from OverDrive's global library network will be made available to participating libraries and publishers, and includes information
about eBook and digital audiobook title circulation, book demand, and holds as well as web traffic and general demographics.
Second, it seems to me that the important
data here were the trends in reading
ebooks and whereas
about 1 in 4 across all age groups read an
ebook in 2010, by 2016 that increased to
about 2 in every 3.
I can understand JC Hemphill's point,
about this
data being somewhate skewed in favor of indie publishing, because of the emphasis of the genre Mystery / thriller Science Fiction / Fantasy Romance, and of Amazon's
ebook market.
Hazard Owen spoke with the head of Digital Book World's parent company
about the need for this type of
data and the credibility it lends to
ebooks:
If you had asked included «
ebooks should cost the same as hardcovers» and «
ebooks should cost the same as paperbacks» and «
ebooks should cost less than paperbacks», I think you would have gotten more specific, useful
data about what book buyers think regarding
ebook prices.
link to a specific chapter or page search for text on the Internet and land on the
ebook leave a comment or feedback in a central place easily query an API
about that
ebook easily search and extract geographic
data from an
ebook etc!
The numbers I've seen thrown around as «conventional wisdom» (as opposed to hard
data, which you are citing) is 4 % of print fiction is sold through Amazon, which makes them the single largest print outlet in the world per store (counting them as one store), and
about 75 % of
ebooks are sold through Amazon.
Passive Voice notes: «It sounds like (
Data Guy) was able to accomplish in person what the voluminous statistics and analysis he and Hugh Howey created with Author Earnings could not do — convince an audience oriented toward traditional publishing that AE provides very useful information
about ebook sales.»
However most retailers don't yet accept enhanced
ebooks (that is, those with added audio, video, and / or scripting) yet, and even those that do are very picky
about the kinds of
data that can be collected and sent (in fact, they currently allow none of the latter — the scripts are allowed to pull
data in from the Internet or keep it within the book itself but can not transmit to anyone but the retailer).
In a nutshell, metadata is the information (
data) you or your publisher needs to provide
about (meta) your book or
ebook
In a nutshell, metadata is the information (
data) you or your publisher needs to provide
about (meta) your book or
ebook to help retailers sell it, librarians catalog it, and readers discover it.
In the
eBook world, the ability to track usage
data, feature adoption, and time spent with each product has meant that we have a whole new world open to us, and a new way of conceiving of and talking
about our products and product development.Digital products have brought the customer back into the equation.
At the annual press conference on June 9th 2015, the German Publishers and Booksellers Association not only presented economic
data and key statistics
about the German book market in general, but also focused on trends and changes within the German
ebook market.
Using a «spider»
data - mining program, they've been crawling over and collecting statistics from the Amazon and Barnes & Noble bestseller lists to determine the truth
about such things as: Are print or
ebook sales dominant?
In addition to the
data already available, such as holds, titles, circulation, and traffic
data, the new datasets will have an increased focus on web traffic intelligence, such as time spent searching, browsing, and socializing
about ebooks and other media.
One of the small press publishers showed on a post yesterday how their
data, based on usa today figures that include
ebooks, is showing how «the indie game is
about over» since legacy guys are pricing $ 1 - $ 3 over the holidays and their increasing % of
ebook sales.
The primary reason we do not have deep
data and transparency
about ebook sales, in both units and dollars, is because of Amazon.
That information is being presented as revealing «
data»
about how the
ebook world really works.
Ebook distributors and platforms have an unprecedented amount of
data about what and how you read.
If for example you have been reading an
eBook on your tolino eReader but are now using the tolino app to read while you're out and
about, the
data are automatically synchronized for you.
Can you link us to any other
data sets, indicators, or official reports
about increasing
ebook sales within the last 1 - 2 years?
While that problem can be laid at the steps of Amazon, it's the job of publishers associations to characterize what
data they do have on digital sales as only partial, and to be wary of contributing to overstatements of what's known
about ebook sales and print supposedly blasting back.
It's generally accepted that Amazon owns an
ebook market share of
about two - thirds as well as a market share of
about 85 % of online print book sales, so here's where Shatzkin's
data points lead for fiction book sales:
Full versions of this report are available for purchase, focused on public, academic, or school libraries and complete with detailed
data broken down by size of library and budget, comparison of 2011 and 2010
data, and hundreds of comments from librarians
about their experiences with
ebooks: