Sentences with phrase «e-book sales hit»

As many have noted of late, e-book sales are slipping, and Publishers Weekly's Jim Milliot has a report on how slowing e-book sales hit profits of two big publishers, S&S and HarperCollins: Parent company News Corp blamed the weak sales performance on lower Divergent sales and lower e-book sales.

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.

The e-reader and consumer e-book industry has hit the proverbial glass ceiling in terms of sales.

She hit the zeitgeist of surging e-book sales and a downturned economy that makes the 99 - cent book tempting to readers... but Hocking is something else that helped her success.

In a convincing post at The Bookseller, Scott Pack, publisher of The Friday Project, an imprint of HarperCollins, notes that the lack of e-book sales integration into the UK bestseller lists cases a «whole host of problems,» not the least of which is that it might undermine a books ability to hit the list.

E-Book sales are out - performing tangible books, lots of new products hitting the market, and a whole lot more!

Despite huge gains for e-books, publishing sales took a hit.

«I was going to mock this Wall Street Journal article somewhere, and there's no better place than A Newbie's Guide for that... So okay, today the Wall Street Journal ran a piece headlined, «E-Book Sales Fall After New Amazon Contracts: Prices Rise, but Revenue Takes a Hit.»

Amazon has been good for all authors, best - selling and non, self - pub and partner pub, because, for a few, A) Amazon helped replace part of the wholesale market, which shrank in the 1990's, and really helped open up online book - selling; B) Amazon has increased international publishing by expanding into numerous countries, allowing more international authors to hit the big English markets, English authors to hit new markets and transnational publishers to do multi-country launches more easily; C) by launching the Kindle, Amazon juiced the small e-book retail industry into a much larger, fast - growing market, which helped replace mass market wholesale sales, etc..

Yasuko Matsui: The e-book market in Japan is growing and hit $ 800 million in sales fuelled by the expansion of the mobile (cellular or feature phone) e-book market.

Within hours of the Harry Potter series going on sale as e-books for the first time, the Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Kindle Store hit a wall: titles of all kinds showed up as unavailable on Kindle Fire and iPad Kindle storefronts while the browser version told would - be customers that titles like the top - selling Hunger Games aren't available in the U.S.

He cited a recent Publishers Association survey that reported in the United Kingdom, sales of consumer e-book titles decreased by 17 percent to 204 million pounds in 2016, the lowest level since 2011, while print book sales hit a five - year high.