Not exact matches
Your ideas, enthusiasm, support, and mad networking skills helped catapult the
e-book version of A Year of Biblical Womanhood to # 18
on the New York Times
Bestseller list.
However, given that most
e-book sales happen
on Amazon, and most of the promotion services are geared at it, I think
Bestsellers Rank is a reasonable proxy.
For the first time, patrons of those libraries will be able to borrow fiction classics including The Great Gatsby and Misty of Chincoteague, along with newer
bestsellers including Walter Isaacson's biography
on Steve Jobs, in
e-book form.
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Jill Marsal: Our most recent big success in this area was J. Lynn, who self - published through our agency and hit # 1
on the New York Times
e-books bestseller list for her book Wait for You.
Finding Karla commands the top position
on Amazon Kindle's non-fiction singles
bestseller list and No. 5
on Kobo's
e-books list.
With more than 150,000
e-books sold in the U.S. (not to mention the weeks it has spent
on the New York Times
bestseller list), Tammara Webber's Easy definitely fits into that category.
As a self - published author, I found enough readers to put Easy
on the NYT
bestseller list for nine weeks — three of those
on the combined and the
e-book lists.
In fact, half of the
e-book bestsellers in the romance, science fiction, and fantasy genres
on Amazon are self - published!
For example, using Amazon's pricing
on the New York Times
Bestseller list for fiction titles, the first ten average out to $ 13.59 for
e-book versions versus $ 15.31 for printed copies, a difference of under two bucks a book.
Many industry experts are in agreement that the current
e-book subscription system is deeply flawed and publishers do not commit front - list titles that are
on the
bestseller lists.
Anyone who purchased a digital book between April 1, 2010 and May 21, 2012 are eligible to receive a $ 6.93 credit for each title that was
on the New York Times
bestseller list and a $ 1.57 credit for all other
e-books.
Indie books represent 25 % of books
on Amazon's
e-book bestseller list.
That said, self - published authors are not uncommon
on the New York Times
e-book bestseller list, as well as Amazon
bestseller lists.
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When only a handful of
e-books are not available, you can normally allocate the entire situation to a bug in the Amazon system, but when every single
bestseller can not be purchased, there is something else going
on.
Other events included a panel
on building your indie author team, and a session about
e-book pre-orders, which session leader and Smashwords founder Mark Coker called, ``... probably the most exciting tool today for self - published authors,» citing more effective advance marketing and the opportunity to break onto the
bestseller lists as reasons to provide pre-orders.
It neatly captures so much of what is going
on in the
e-book market today, mainly that there are far more indie debut authors from 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013 who are now holding spots
on the Amazon
bestseller charts than Big - 5 debut authors.
Amazon, Barnes and Noble and Kobo's digital bookstores all have dedicated sections
on their e-readers that draw attention to the
bestseller section of the Times and I am told these
e-books are key growth drivers for these companie
The Big Five traditional publishers now account for only 16 per cent of the
e-books on Amazon's
bestseller lists **
As a result, many books
on the New York Times
bestseller list are, or soon will be, available as
e-books, but that isn't the case for thrillers such as The Field Manual For Satellite Dish Realignment.
Her Saving Grace is a
bestseller on Amazon, B&N, and Apple, and we now make its
e-book format free, everywhere.
Teen dystopian trilogy Hunger Games appears to be
on its way to blockbuster - dom, pulling in $ 19.75 million at the midnight premiere of the first movie — and bouncing back to the top of
e-book bestseller lists.
The next chart shows the percentage of genre
e-books on several Amazon
bestseller lists according to how they were published:
Her fourth novel, Stepbrother Dearest, was also the # 1 independently published kindle
e-book on Amazon's 2014
bestseller list.
Kindle publishers can also take advantage of other
e-book promotion opportunities
on Amazon.com, such as reviewing other products, enhancing their profile and author page
on Amazon, and conducting Amazon
bestseller campaigns.
Early in its history, Barnes & Noble differentiated itself with a number of bookselling innovations including television advertising, «value» pricing, publishing proprietary books, and deep discounting of
bestsellers, and has remained
on the forefront of bookselling in all its iterations, including online (bn.com) and
e-books, with its Nook e-reader.
So to get the
e-book first out, and to get an
e-book which requires extra effort and cost for the publisher to do, you pay initially more —
on hardcover
bestsellers.
When a book becomes a film, for instance, the hardcover, trade paperback and mass market paperback editions of that book may all end up back
on the
bestseller list at the same time, despite the mass market being the cheapest (and the
e-book too — that's one time where the
e-book price may be raised again because they know people will pay it.)
A lot of people like discounts, sure, particularly
on bestsellers — which is why the fact that an
e-book is less than a hardcover does well.
Sometime later this year, Walmart will start selling
e-books, audiobooks and Kobo e-readers in the United States, looking to expand a market presence that has been limited to physical books, typically paperback
bestsellers, along with a broader selection
on line.
According to Hamish McKenzie, Oyster's
e-book subscription model «is a potential threat to Amazon's status - quo ala carte model, [sic] particularly when it comes to casual readers who aren't fussed about getting their hands
on the new
bestsellers as soon as they're released.»
At the time when Kindle sold NYT
bestsellers for $ 9.99,
e-books were less widely available than they are now, and they were available
on fewer platforms.
Cool Gus Publishing is one of the most successful author - generated publishing partnerships with sales ranking in the top 1 %, and numerous titles selling into the top 100 in their genres
on Kindle, PubIt and other
e-book platforms, including a # 2 National
Bestseller on BarnesandNoble.com and two separate # 1 science fiction
bestsellers on both US and UK Kindle.
We will kick off the event with Forrester's snapshot based
on interviewing [publishing] executives; we'll feature academic research from Carnegie - Mellon
on the true impact of piracy; and Dan Lubart and Jeremy Greenfield will deliver a report based
on close study of
e-book bestseller data.
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