Square Enix has announced today that day one shipment and
digital sales numbers for Final Fantasy XV have exceeded 5 million units worldwide.
The big problem right now is that all these publisher contracts were signed several years ago with confidentiality clauses, so no one is reporting
digital sales numbers.
Not exact matches
Take - Two also reported a nuanced quarter on Monday, which proved its ability to put up good
numbers from its catalog and
digital areas with creative ways to drive
sales and revenue through its use of its virtual currency system.
There are doubtlessly a growing
number of people like me — certainly the continually rising
sales figures for
digital music, movies and books is evidence of that.
Although Parisi is quick to emphasis that
digital sales will compliment offline
sales, not replace them, a scout's ability to target customers online will likely alter the cookie - selling success equation, elevating the importance of an effective
digital -
sales strategy over the sheer
number of hours spent pounding the pavement.
While a
number of the year's key themes will be carried over into 2015, including even larger
digital sales and better integration of on - and offline, below are five less obvious trends that experts predict will shape the retail world in the coming year.
Since founding her company, she has worked on a
number of brands in the food, beverage, tech, and lifestyle industries boost their
digital presence, and ultimately increase
sales.
Since launching a campaign with Quantum, we have seen a considerable uptick in
digital conversions, leading to more visitors walking through the door of our dealership — all resulting in higher
sales numbers — and one of our best Januarys ever.
The staggering
number includes
digital download
sales too.
For retail
sales, the game managed to sell 445k units according to Nintendo, but adding in
digital sales brings that
number to more than 500k in the United States alone.
In comparison, Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate sold about 290 000 units during its first month on the market (NB: that
number includes
digital sales.
This
number includes the amount of physical units shipped to retailers plus
digital sales.
This
sales figure
number update includes
sales of the
digital version as well.
In an increasingly virtual, convenience - driven, safety - conscious and arguably desinsidtised world, people will alway search for authentic, intense and meaningful experiences - the dominance of fast food doesn't diminish the
number of people who care about their cooking and eating experience, the ányplace, anywhere» availability of
digital music streams and downloads has made vinyl record
sales thrive and the likes of Singer, Eagle E-types, Morgan are making hay from established OEMs not being able or willing to deliver the full flavour experience (except for a tiny
number of limited edition Porsches that no one can buy at list price anyway and get sold at inflated collector prices as a result.
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«What we're doing is combining all the public social data for every author and title, with our customers» private
sales numbers — paper and
digital — to help them understand which social signal are leading indicators of their
sales numbers and which marketing events were able to reliably drive social and
sales numbers.»
In 2015, the average
number of
digital subscription
sales rose 6 % to an average of about 36,000 per title.
This infuriated a
number of established publishers, who feared that
digital sales would undercut the lucrative hardcover market.
Hard
numbers are more difficult to come by from Barnes & Noble, but the company's
digital sales (namely, Nooks, e-books and all associated paraphernalia) declined 23 percent between 2016 and 2017.
In fact, DC Comics says that
digital sales of Batman: The Dark Knight Returns were up 161 % in July over June's
numbers, setting a record for
sales of a full - priced
digital graphic novel.
While we don't have comparable
numbers for
digital comics
sales, I do track the
digital comics best sellers each week, and Image has been a greater presence lately on comiXology (which is the
digital distributor that most closely mirrors the direct comics market).
Adding its own total to the
number of print books sold in 2015, the Bookseller estimates that there were 276.2 m print and
digital books sold in 2015, 2.9 % up on its 2014 estimate, with
digital accounting for 30.9 % of all volume
sales, down from 32.7 %.
Dark Reign, Seige, AVX, Age of Apocalypse, Fear Itself, and Secret Invasion all sell big
numbers in the comic stores and via
digital sales.
At this point, almost every comics publisher has some sort of
digital component, so it almost doesn't make sense to separate out
digital comics, but every con can be counted on to have a few pioneering
digital - first comics and apps, and hopefully there will be some boasting about
sales numbers as well.
While
sales of print comics are well documented (by Diamond, the distributor to comics shops, and BookScan, which reports on bookstore
sales), real
numbers are much harder to come by in the
digital realm, where everyone starts to get all vague and mumbly if you ask the question.
Tempelis spoke on the recent collaboration between
digital media collection OverDrive and Sourcebooks, a project which sought to provide definitive
numbers to the industry about how ebook lending impacts future
sales of the title and of the author's and publisher's other books.
We've often heard from publicists,
digital and library marketers,
sales reps, and even authors that they'd like to broaden the
number of people who can preview their content before it's published, and that they'd like to know with more certainty the influence and reach of those broader communities.
In our walkup to The FutureBook
digital publishing community's #FutureChat, I had written that the analysis, while declaring the staggered International Standard Book
Number (ISBN) a goner, had failed to call out Amazon for not reporting its majority share of ebook
sales (estimated at 67 percent in the US market) so that the industry - at - large can «see» and quantify itself.
Samsung's US online store is holding a special Black Friday 2013
sale, offering a wide range of TVs, as well as a
number of tablets, laptops,
digital cameras and other consumer electronic products with hundreds of dollars in savings.
As publishers such as John Wiley & Sons have seen with the recent second quarter
sales numbers that reflect a drop in ebook
sales of cookbooks, fewer readers may be taking their pricey
digital devices to the messy kitchen countertop.
Many customers who want the Sony
Digital Paper are currently flocking to Amazon, where a
number of units are posted for
sale.
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.
Some of the surprising
numbers included the
number of publishers who have no plans to produce ebooks at any time in the future, the very slight differences in total
sales among the various top - name ebook distribution channels, and the startlingly high
number of publishers who plan to release the majority of their titles in both print and
digital editions.
The compilation of
sales numbers to develop the bestsellers lists will be in four distinct categories: a combined
number for
digital and print
sales of fiction,
digital and print of non-fiction, ebook - only fiction, and ebook - only non-fiction.
Digital publishing and ebook retailing are still quite the
numbers game, as ongoing reports on book
sales can clearly demonstrate.
Dark Horse
Digital, meanwhile, is putting its art books on
sale, including art from a
number of video games (Mass Effect, DragonAge, BioShock Infinite) and comics, both original (Hellboy, Usagi Yojimbo) and licensed (Star Wars).
On Wednesday, ABA CEO Oren Teicher told
Digital Book World attendees that «not only are indie booksellers surviving in extraordinarily turbulent times, but many... are thriving, even recording record
sales numbers for the fourth quarter of last year.»
A
number of publishers will benefit from this new law and are likely see more book
sales, due to the reduced prices in their physical and
digital counterparts.
The fact that Amazon is developing a secondary market for
digital book
sales might be unbelievable to a
number of people.
It's an accepted fact that romance fans dominate the
digital market, as shown by the high
numbers of ebooks
sales, the romance publishers who've established ebook - only and
digital - first imprints, and the success stories of bestselling self - published romance authors.
Still, Barnes and Noble is the
number 2
digital bookseller in the United States and trounces Apple, Google and Kobo in
sales.
Many experts have acknowledged that the sheer
number of new e-readers on the market helped with the increased
sales of
digital books.
Publisher John Wiley & Sons released its
digital sales figures for several areas of its professional & trade paperback divisions this week and the
numbers could speak volumes about the reading habits and the buying habits of consumers for both
digital and print.
In the case of Scholastic «s publication of Suzanne Collins» wildly successful Hunger Games trilogy, print books should have accounted for a higher percentage of
sales, given the prevalence of print over
digital in that demographic; at the same time, ebook
sales of E.L. James» 50 Shades of Grey trilogy and the anonymity of
digital purchases — coupled with the self - publishing
numbers from the first go - round — made ebooks seem to be the clear frontrunner.
However, despite the rise in total
sales, by genre the
numbers were higher than last year for both business and technology books, but had a noticeable drop in
sales for cookbooks and travel books in
digital format.
As tablet PC
sales continue to rise and greater
numbers of
digital reading consumers clamor for interactive, full - color reading experiences, enhanced ebooks and app books are gaining popularity.
The variety of emerging new formats and distribution channels still largely complement rather than dominate print publishing (
digital sales are still a single digit %
number), even though new media have the momentum of more column inches these days.