Statistics from two recent surveys on self - publishing show that indie authors
dominate eBook bestseller lists by a whopping 54 %.
Not exact matches
DBW just came out with a better, but not perfect,
ebook bestseller list and it is even more
dominated by traditional publishing, at least on the surface.
Amazon is going into this with the intention of
dominating from the word go: it says that
eBooks Kindle en Español will have the most Spanish - language
bestsellers of any e-bookstore in the U.S., as measured by Nielsen.
A quick glance at any
ebook bestseller chart shows self - publishers
dominating.
For much of 2011 his self - published
eBooks - including The
Bestseller, The Basement, Once Bitten and Dreamer's Cat - dominated the UK eBook bestseller lists and sold more than half a milli
Bestseller, The Basement, Once Bitten and Dreamer's Cat -
dominated the UK
eBook bestseller lists and sold more than half a milli
bestseller lists and sold more than half a million copies.
Smashwords Authors
dominate the New York Times
Bestseller List — Does anyone still remember the arguments from only a year or so ago, the ones where critics said that digital publishing was going to destroy the book industry or where fans of
ebooks promised it would be the death of paper books?
And it's
dominating the
eBook business as well, selling as much as eight in ten of the
eBooks of major
bestsellers, seeing its
eBook sales rate triple over last year.
Even though the
bestseller list is
dominated by books backed by mainstream publishers, indie - authors can use the list to gauge the zeitgeist and monitor what readers are willing to pay for quality
ebooks.
Jeremy Greenfield at Digital Book World lists the top 25
ebook bestsellers, this week
dominated by Veronica Roth with the Divergent Series.
@Joe: «Right now, the
ebook bestseller lists are
dominated by habit.