Sentences with phrase «digital book sales»

Though it's hard to say what exactly has caused the apparent slow - down of digital book sales, this does spell good news for fans of physical books.

Further, with digital book sales increasing from 20 - 30 % this year to likely over half by the end of the year, more customers will be discovering books in new ways.

This was a smart move because they can now focus more on internal sales then try and compete in the increasingly competitive landscape of digital book sales.

The second is a new Universal Book Link service for digital book sales from Draft2Digital called Books2Read.

I think B&N and others are banking on digital book sales plateauing at 30 %

But in the past two years a revival has taken place, fuelled by rising print sales and declining digital book sales.

Figures from the Publishers Association's annual yearbook revealed that the invoiced value of consumer e-books dropped by close to 11 % to # 245m, the first fall since it started monitoring digital book sales seven years ago.

Guest: Andrea Susan Glass According to Forrester Research, digital book sales tripled to $ 966 million in 2010 and are set to almost triple again by 2015.

This will promote digital book sales, which obviously Microsoft wants, even if it accounts for a fraction of a percent in terms of their overall sales.

But the company says digital book sales were dragged down by the «device sales shortfall,» and also because last year was a really good year for e-books, because of all that mommy porn.

Amazon controls roughly 70 % of the North American and European digital book sales, while Kobo is sitting pretty in second place.

The majority of Canadian digital book sales go to USA based companies.

Kindle Book and print books increase by 16 % — Amazon released their second quarter results last week and the company experienced an increase in print and digital book sales by 16 %.

This will allow companies like Nielsen who track digital book sales to be able to accurately track sales figures for the purchase of meaningful data.

Digital book sales continue to soar in Germany and in 2017 29.1 million titles were sold, which is an increase of 3.9 %.

The idea behind the project is to give self - published authors — those who have made their books available for free through Amazon's digital book sales place — a chance to go from relative obscurity to «famous.»

Of course, buried in the recent news reports about rise of e-books was the caveat that digital book sales represent only a thin slice of publishing's pumpkin pie — estimated to be about one percent.

That wasn't helped when I saw an article where the president of the Guild told Amazon that the Guild would not support Amazon's offer» to immediately begin offering the delayed books again and give its share of Hachette digital book sales to the authors for the duration of the dispute — if the publisher would also forgo its share of the revenue.»

If you're already well - known and enjoying lucrative digital books sales, Kindle Unlimited may not be an essential aspect to growing your readership (although it can't hurt).

Digital book sales overall are up 6 %.

Another reason why digital book sales declined last year is because cookery and humour are simply better in print — and last year's bestseller lists were populated by books by the fitness guru Joe Wicks, the Ladybird Books for Grown - ups series and Enid Blyton parodies.

Since books aren't priced based on quality of the writers, then keeping digital books at or above a certain, fairly arbitrary, price that does not match material value deters the possible growth of digital book sales among prospective consumers.

As one of the few non-authors consistently following a lot of authors from a business perspective and with years in the retail book industry — here is my take in a nutshell and only concerning digital book sales.

And, as reported in Publishing Perspectives, in the third edition of Bookwire and Dosdoce's Spanish Markets Digital Evolution 2017 report, a turnaround in Spanish - language markets may well be in the offing, with digital book sales reported to have rising 110 percent in Latin America, 42 percent in Spain.

So... finally digital book sales outnumber hard - copy book sales.

With print remaining unaffected, Mofibo has transformed the share of digital book sales in Denmark from 3 % to 18 % in just two years.

And you want to offer 20 % of NET for digital book sales.

Figures from the Publishers Association's annual yearbook revealed that the invoiced value of consumer e-books dropped by close to 11 % to # 245m, the first fall since it started monitoring digital book sales seven years ago.

According to Forrester Research, digital book sales tripled to $ 966 million in 2010 and are set to almost triple again by 2015.

Aiming at the end customer means you have to use cheap components or even take a loss in order to make long term revenue with digital book sales.

In July, Amazon tried to make peace with Hachette authors by offering them 100 % of digital book sales for as long as talks with Hachette dragged out — a proposal that Hachette had already turned down in negotiations.

The increase was led by growth in both print and digital book sales, including the bestselling titles Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen and The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo by Amy Schumer.

In 2009, she guessed that digital book sales would «erode 15 percent of her traditional book business within five years.

They account for over 70 % of all digital book sales in North America and similar stats for the United Kingdom.

They are trying to still make a go out of selling Nook devices in the hope that digital book sales will make up for the diminishing returns.

Most of their physical and digital book sales and marketing are still done by the same people, in the same divisions.

The high interest in comparing print and digital book sales has led to a renewed interest in looking at the reading habits of consumers around the world.

When it comes to the future of digital book sales, Hachette is quite bullish.

In Japan manga accounts for 80 % of all digital book sales.

Barnes and Noble was the only other major competitor, garnering 14 % of all digital book sales and Apple had a paltry 6 % share market share.

In an IQ2 debate of the topic «Amazon Is the Reader's Friend,» Matthew Yglesias, Executive Editor of Vox (and arguing «for») posited that the Internet retail giant's 41 % share of book sales and 67 % share of digital book sales is a result of its «superior product.»

Reviews mean more exposure, more rankings, and ultimately more Kindle and digital book sales.

This latest data from Nielsen though will prompt publishers and online retailers to compare these two peak quarters more easily, and avoid direct (and possibly unfair) comparison between physical and digital book sales in the final quarter of the year.