You can usually, though not always, put
an e-book up for sale at many online stores, not just at the one owned by the company through which you published the e-book.
Are you looking for a quick, easy, high - profit solution to getting
your e-books up for sale with major retailers?
Amazon is the first of the major retailers to allow indies (self - published authors and small presses) to put
their e-books up for sale.
Not exact matches
But a few people must be using this time to plan
for 2014 — Kindle
sales of the
e-book version of «How Campaigns Can Use The Internet to Win in 2012» have ticked
up noticeably in August.
And all the big
e-book sellers write fiction and have published multiple books, whereas I have just one non-fiction title
for sale — so you'll be able to catch
up quick!
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 previo
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 previo
for the loss of hardware income,
up 46 % last quarter from the quarter previous.
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.
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.
HC CEO Brian Murray said that the continued decline in
e-books isn't a major concern at the moment, noting that in the North American market gains in print book
sales made
up for the drop in
e-book sales.
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.
For the first quarter of 2011, US
e-book sales were
up 159.8 %, to $ 233.1 million.
Some traditional publishers offer the same royalty rate
for both printed books and
e-books; most now offer
up to 25 % of net revenues
for the
sale of
e-books.
Recently, breakout author Hugh Howey got a print publishing deal and was able to keep his digital rights, which means he will continue to collect larger royalties on his
e-books (
up to 70 %
for Kindle
sales) than most traditionally published authors receive.
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At this point in time (since most
e-books can't be resold), e-reader owners miss out on things like garage
sales, rummage
sales and library
sales; places where a box of paperbacks could be picked
up for ten bucks.
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 billion, 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 billion, up from 4 % the previou
e-books together in 2014 stood at # 2.2 billion,
up from 4 % the previous year.
It's no secret Amazon is losing money with each Kindle Fire sold and is having to make
up for that with app and
e-book sales.
Especially, since so much selfie «marketing» is just straight out lying — creating fake «company» names
for a company of one person, buying fake reviews, giving each other fake awards, claiming to be «best sellers» because some newspaper put
up a chart of
e-book sales.
It may come as a shock
for some, then, that
e-books only made
up 20.2 percent of all 2011 book
sales in the US.
(Indeed, Amazon stands to make more money from the agency model; right now, it loses money on
e-book sales, which it makes
up for in Kindle
sales.)
Once publishers adopt reasonable pricing
for e-books and drop the DRM security, which I think they will be forced to do by market and legal pressures in the not - too - distant future, I suspect the sheer convenience of
e-books will drive the
sales of
e-books up, consequently forcing
sales of hard copies down.
Let's just establish
up front that, in the long run, the most important Kindle
sales numbers involve calculations of how many Kindle books — or any other
e-books,
for that matter ---LSB-...]
E-books in 2014 accounted
for 27 % of all adult trade
sales,
up from 23 % in 2012.
Audiobook
sales have been growing over the past four years and major publishers have all disclosed that audio
sales are making
up for the massive decline
for their
e-book units.
The e-commerce giant had just over 83 percent of the U.S.
e-book market in early 2017,
up from 74 percent in October 2015, according to AuthorEarnings, which tracks book
sales for writers and other industry participants.
On a unit basis, the new
e-book sales more than made
up for lost print - book
sales.
The AAP is beefing
up its monthly reports with data from many more publishers — 1,149
for January 2012 compared to under 100 in past months — and more detailed reporting on specific genres: Children's / young adult
e-book sales are now broken out and religious book
sales are divided by hardcover, paperback and
e-books.
That could be good news
for authors who make
up for a loss in mass - market
sales with increases in
e-book sales.
In the first quarter data
for 2009, Penguin's
e-book sales were
up seven times over that same period from... [Read more...]
In the first quarter data
for 2009, Penguin's
e-book sales were
up seven times over that same period from the year before.
Unlike its U.S. online counterpart, which now sells more
e-books than print, the German Kindle store sells only one
e-book for every 100 print books, making
up only.5 percent of total book
sales last year.
Self - publishers» share of the
e-book market rose to 12 % last year from 8 % in 2014, while small presses accounted
for 30 % of
e-book unit
sales in 2015,
up from 26 % in 2014.
In the US, adult
e-book sales surpassed those of hardback books
for the first time in the first quarter of 2012, according to the Association of American Publishers, jumping 28 percent year - on - year to $ 282.3 million, compared to $ 229.6 million
for hardbacks,
up 2.7 percent.
By Jim Milliot in Publisher's Weekly (6/17/16)-- Though various sources have reported a decline in
e-book sales for traditional publishers in 2015 compared to 2014, no one has come
up with a clear reason
for the drop.
In fact, Jenny Shank writes
up the issue from the publishing side
for PBS MediaShift, in Will Authors Get Compensated
for Used
E-Book Sales?
There haven't been many details yet, so we'll have to wait and see how well the
e-books are formatted, if they allow returns, or how many new releases show
up for sale through Google.
Though those numbers don't add
up, they do show that —
for all of the players — the focus is less on hardware and more on the opportunity
for ongoing
e-book sales.
But guess what, Amazon already does that with the page that pops
up at the end of any
e-book directing customers to where they can rate the book they've just finished and where they can see what else the author has
for sale.
And now
for some stats: it seems More People Are Buying Dirty
E-Books Than Hardcover Books,
E-book sales revenue and number of books sold are
up, publishing market size down but Do These New Book
Sale Statistics Shock You?
Let's just establish
up front that, in the long run, the most important Kindle
sales numbers involve calculations of how many Kindle books — or any other
e-books,
for that matter — are being purchased and downloaded.
Specifically, J. K. Rowling decided to publish the
e-book versions of the Harry Potter series herself, and I have personally heard a number of older authors talk about putting
up some of the backlist
for sale themselves and «making more on it now than I ever did before.»
As far as the wider book market goes, the statistics are also very positive, with 75 percent of all
E-books offered
up for sale actually being purchased.
The soaring
e-book sales won't be enough to make
up for the decline in physical book
sales, which will decline at a compound annual growth rate of 5 % between now and 2014, Mather argues.
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..
I do one editing round to proofread your finished manuscript, create the PDF
for your paperback, convert your files to epub and mobi formats
for your
e-book, organize your cover with a cover designer, * copywrite your
sales description page and author bio, copywrite your back cover blurb, consult on how to set
up your book title on CreateSpace (or IngramSpark), Kindle Direct Publishing (or Draft2Digital), consult on your author page on Amazon Author Central, review your proof copy and ebook versions on multiple devices to ensure they are error - free... leaving you to click «Publish.»
In fact, growth in
e-book sales for smaller publishers and independent authors has gone some way towards making
up for declines from the bigger players.
At minimum, you want to reach Kindle & Nook, since they currently make
up about 70 — 80 % of all
e-book sales, followed by Apple iBookstore, Kobo (essential
for Canadians), and Google Play.
Despite the strong July performance, adult hardcover
sales were down 17.8 %
for the seven month period, while
e-book sales were
up 152.8 %, to $ 560.5 million.
For those of you keeping score,
e-book sales in the first 8 months of 2011 are
up to $ 649.2 M (an increase of 116.5 % over last year, more than double).
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