epubli charges a yearly fee to distribute books beyond its own website, but pays authors 80 % of
e-book sales from their website, and 60 % of distributor sales; for print books 70 % and 50 %, respectively).
It is best if you can exclude bundled
e-book sales from your agreement with the agent; however, if you are unable to negotiate such a deal, and if you choose to include an agent - assisted title in a bundle, then I suggest the following:
Our current estimates for 2H10 / FY11 could also prove conservative as we assume only 10 % Y / Y growth in Kindle device sales with no contribution to
e-book sales from the iPad.
It seems part of the Digital Book World conference, Jonathan Stolper from Neilsen Books noted that
e-book sales from «reporting publishers» was down 16 %.
It's a way for Amazon to make money from
e-book sales from people who may not own the $ 259 Kindle device or the larger - screen Kindle DX, which costs $ 489.
Smith adds, «I would love to see one list that includes both print and
e-book sales from physical chain and independent retail stores and online sales.
I make almost
no e-book sales from LULU, so the DRM issue is little relevant — Amazon accounts for the lion's share of my sales, and as Morgan pointed out, DRM remains unchanged.
Because most sales happen through Amazon, and many indie authors are looking to save time and administrate
e-book sales from one central location, e-book distributors have become a popular means for reaching the secondary markets — or basically the non-Amazon accounts.
This is especially apparent when you take into account the fact that
e-book sales from mainstream publishers was slightly down on 2014 figures.
Not exact matches
Hit by Amazon's explosive growth a decade ago, as well as the rise of
e-books (which now seem to have peaked at around 20 % of total book
sales), Barnes & Noble closed stores year - in, year - out, benefiting
from a savvy move in the 1990s that saw it opt for short leases.
That was similar to the «everyone wins» idea behind Amazon's independent bookseller program called Amazon Source that allowed bookstores to sell Kindle devices and
e-books and earn a commission on the proceeds
from their
sale.
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.
Yet, prior to the book deal, Cuomo signed legislation exempting online publications
from sales tax and his administration exempted
e-books from sales tax.
While the tax bill was moving through the legislature, Cuomo's Department of Taxation also released an advisory opinion in August 2011 that exempted
e-books from sales taxation.
He notes that the Association of American Publishers reported a sharp decline in the growth of
e-book sales, down
from triple digits to 34 %.
Hachette cited fewer hot titles and the implementation of its Amazon deal as reasons that
e-books fell to 24 % of its U.S. net trade
sales in the first half of 2015,
from 29 % a year earlier.
In fact, according to the American Association of Publishers (AAP), in January of 2011 online
e-Book sales totaled an amazing $ 69.9 million, up
from $ 32.4 million in January of 2010, a 115 % increase.
«We are very happy with this agreement as it is economically advantageous for both Simon & Schuster and its authors and maintains the author's share of income generated
from e-book sales,» Reid wrote.
Industrywide, for the first five months of 2015, publisher
e-book revenue for adult, children's and young adult titles fell 10.4 % to $ 583 million compared with the same time in 2014, according to the Association of American Publishers» monthly StatShot report, which collects
sales data
from 1,200 publishers in the U.S.
My
e-book went on
sale on December 19th, 2016, dropping
from $ 3.99 to $ 0.99.
In this article, author David Gaughran highlighted the fact that online
sales figures
from Kindle and other platforms were showing that 25 % of the US
e-book market was being captured by self - published authors.
For me, since the vast majority of my
sales come
from e-books, I am more than happy using Createspace.
But here's the thing: there's only one author in the world right now who has made two million dollars
from self - published
e-book sales and another two million dollars on a newly - inked traditional deal.
For now,
sales of digital content — mainly
e-books — are making up for the loss of hardware income, up 46 % last quarter
from the quarter previous.
Great
e-book promotion touches all phases of the
sales funnel and requires involvement
from multiple teams within your organization.
Under the agency pricing deal, publishers were allowed to set their own prices for
e-books and Apple took a cut
from all
sales through the iBooks store for iOS devices.
That is very different
from self - publishing where an author either puts their own work up for
sale as
e-books on sites such as Amazon or Barnes & Noble.
One of the benefits about publishing your
e-book with Draft2digital is that they give you a free ISBN number
from Bowker, so your
sales data will be included in reports
from Nielsen.
Hachette has also reported that
e-Book sales have also fallen in the U.K. and accounted for 30 % of total book
sales, down
from 34 % a year ago.
Kindles have been on
sale in the country since 2013, and
e-books from Amazon since 2012, when the company launched an
e-book store just for China, complete with international and domestic titles.
E-books now account for 30 % of book units purchased in the UK, and the sales of print and e-books together in 2014 stood at # 2.2 bn, up from 4 % the previou
E-books now account for 30 % of book units purchased in the UK, and the
sales of print and
e-books together in 2014 stood at # 2.2 bn, up from 4 % the previou
e-books together in 2014 stood at # 2.2 bn, up
from 4 % the previous year.
The graph above shows the proportion of digital
sales in the overall book market in some selected countries; in some cases the figures distinguish between the
sales of
e-books as such and the broader
sales of digital products
from publishers (such as databases and subscriptions).
Apple sold 63 million
e-books during the same time period and 54 % of total unit
sales were
from big publishers.
From what i understand, 1,200 publishers took part in the report, and they are verifiable
e-book sales.
The ratio of
e-book sales to hardcopy
sales rose
from 10 percent to 30 percent in 2014.
Sales of
e-book readers and e-paper notebooks together accounted for 70 % of E Ink's third - quarter revenues, with the remaining 30 %
from IoT applications including smart cards, electronic shelf labels (ESL), e-paper display solutions, and mobile and wearable devices.
The organization has reported that
e-book sales have declined 11 % on the year with YA falling a staggering 44.5 %
from the same period in 2014.
They have also reported that
e-Books accounted for 24 % of total book
sales in the first nine months of 2015, down
from 28 % in the January - September period of 2014.
The Association of American Publishers garner
sales data
from 1,207 publishers and they have found
e-book sales have decreased 10.3 % in the first six months of 2015.
During the summer they proclaimed that in the first three months of 2015
e-book sales plummeted 7.5 %
from the same period last year.
E-books now account for 30 % of all book units purchased in the UK, and the sales of print and e-books together in 2014 stood at # 2.2 bn, up from 4 % the previou
E-books now account for 30 % of all book units purchased in the UK, and the
sales of print and
e-books together in 2014 stood at # 2.2 bn, up from 4 % the previou
e-books together in 2014 stood at # 2.2 bn, up
from 4 % the previous year.
The bookseller has reported that Nook e-reader, tablet and
e-book sales have fallen 31.9 %
from the same period last year.
Simon & Schuster has just released their quarterly financial results and
e-book sales accounted for just 21 % of total publishing revenues in the fourth quarter, down
from the 24 % they accounted for in the same quarter a year earlier.
The publisher has acknowledged that
e-book sales accounted for 10.4 % of total revenue in the quarter, down
from 12.2 % a year ago.
Meanwhile Simon and Schuster reported that
e-book sales represented 20.4 % of total revenue down
from 25.1 % in last year's third quarter, while all digital
sales accounted for 24.8 % compared to 28.3 % in 2014.
According to a report
from iReaderReview.com,
e-book sales have risen in a big way.
A recent story in The New York Times, «The Plot Twist:
E-Book Sales Slip, and Print Is Far From Dead,» makes it look like the e-book trend is trailin
E-Book Sales Slip, and Print Is Far
From Dead,» makes it look like the
e-book trend is trailin
e-book trend is trailing off.
Because large
sales platforms often offer popular material, including
e-books from famous authors, they may prove bigger targets for digital piracy.
HarperCollins»
e-book sales increased 30 % in the September quarter
from the same period a year earlier and now account for more than a fifth of the publisher's revenue.
Also, the American Publishing Association has announced that the
sales of
e-books have increased
from 3 percent of the market a year ago, to 8 and a half percent.