Traditional publishers started mounting a spirited pricing war with indie authors during late 2013 to regain the sub - $ 4
eBook market which they had surrendered.
The Author Earnings Report looks at data from one store covering only 65 % of
the ebook market which itself is only around 30 % of the bigger publishing market.
What is even more interesting is that ebooks still represent just one percent of the Russian
ebook market which means there is still a tremendous scope for growth of ebooks in digital form in the country.
Not exact matches
A strong content
marketing strategy often includes a healthy mix of content types, some of
which can be accomplished in the short - term with your day - to - day team, but other in - depth content types, such as case studies,
ebooks, white papers, and video can take much longer to develop — and heavily tax your on staff resources.
However, in the case of a person like me without a large blog readership, would it make sense for me to invest a ton of time creating an
eBook if I don't have a platform standing behind me from
which to
market the product?
Uli is also the co-founder of Big Boost Media,
which helps people stay current with the changing publishing
market and do more than simply produce and distribute great
eBooks.
My list has recently been added to Overdrive,
which delivers
ebooks to 95 % of the library
market.
At the same time they also note the growing popularity of
ebooks,
which according to some calculations may account for some 30 % of the total domestic book
market by 2020 - 2022.
eBook sales don't account for any more than 30 % of all books sold,
which means the majority of the
market is in printed books.
Tolino
markets its own dedicated Tolino - branded e-reading device through the brick and mortar stores of its retail partners,
which tether the retailer's
ebook store to the device.
The same is expected to rise to five percent by 2017,
which will make the
ebook market worth around RUB 3 billion (USD $ 90 million).
It is time for other stakeholders in the e-book
market to clearly acknowledge the important role of libraries in developing a reading culture
which actively fosters the sale of books and
eBooks».
However, there are a few challenges that remain as Japanese authorities will still have to devise a method of ascertaining the online distribution prices adopted by companies such as Amazon,
which is based in the US but has a considerable presence in the Japanese
ebook market.
Rockstand that counts itself among the leading
ebook reading app in India has now forged alliances with several key publishers
which includes Delhi Press, Next - Gen Publishing, Hay
Market, BPB Publications & Magna Publishing.
OnlineComputerBooks contains details about free computer books, free
ebooks, free online books and sample chapters related to Information Technology, Computer Science, Internet, Business,
Marketing, Maths, Physics and Science
which are provided by publishers or authors.
As a data - driven
marketing tool,
ebooks can be used for fiction and nonfiction comps and exit purchase leads,
which creates engagement and fosters an environment for discoverability of new authors or new content.
Last week, Amazon stopped selling
ebooks by the Independent Publishers Group because the IPG wouldn't agree to their terms — Amazon
ebook terms are notoriously one - sided,
which is natural for a company with
market share easily over 60 %.
With the Touch Edition, Sony has given us one of the best designed readers on the
market and with the touch screen marrying perfectly with the new user interface, we have a couple features
which really make this one of the most desirable
ebook readers around, and should be a serious contender if you're looking to upgrade or be buying an eReader for the first time.
Btw, the wonderful Dana Lynn Smith has written a new
eBook titled «How to Get Your Book Reviewed»,
which I am yet to read, but have no doubt it will be a fantastic resource as Dana is so well versed in book
marketing and promotions.
All of these vagaries don't apply to the other major lists, like the Wall Street Journal list,
which is based strictly on Nielsen Bookscan reporting (estimated to be about 75 - 80 % of the actual
market on most general trade titles) and includes
eBooks, without filtering out types of non-fiction.
Ebooks have none of those added costs,
which is why they should be less regardless of the advance paid to the author or other expenses the publisher incurs in bringing a book to
market.
From something that was considered a domestic online enterprise, eSentral has grown into a digital platform monster serving more than 40,000
ebooks for the
market of Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore, and all this started on landscape
which did not have an
ebook industry to begin with.
It would seem that Amazon is not content with controlling more than 50 % of the
ebook market they also want to control the reviews and thereby control
which writers sell and
which don't.
They can imagine ways to improve the Kindle platform,
which now accounts for about 60 percent of the
eBook market, and within a matter of months they can make their improvements real in a new version of the devices or software.
«De facto standard» means one in dominant position by public acceptance and
market forces,
which means Mobi / PRC is actually de facto standard for
ebook format.
Its interesting to compare
Ebook sales in the US,
which is by far the largest
market for them, with here in the UK.
The other different pure
ebook reader manufacturers include Pandigital
which got 16.1 % of
market share, Barnes and Noble got 15.4 % of the total share followed by other manufacturer Sony, Hanvon and others.
And, of course, some of them will also upsell you on services to help you
market your
eBook and increase sales, for
which they'll get their cut.
There are new and growing opportunities in this
market due to the loss of retail shelf space
which accelerates the importance of
eBooks.
In the US and European
markets,
which have been early adopters of
ebooks, the
market share for digital trade books is currently at 50 %.
Amazon and many other e-reader companies are currently enjoying a tremendous advantage in the EU by basing their operations in Luxembourg The main benefit is being able to only charge 3 % VAT to any country in Europe in
which they actively
market ebooks.
Completely true, if only people were more willing to do some investigation instead of blindly following the masses with incorrect information and
marketing from the manufactures, I personally use a variety of different ereaders and I am able to read any box on all other devices by reformatting
ebooks to
which ever format required.
One country whose numbers seem very telling in this situation is Peru,
which lags behind the rest of the Latin American reading
market in terms of
ebook purchasing.
In an even bolder move, Rowling published the
ebooks through her own site only a few weeks ago and gave several other online retail booksellers the take - it - or - leave - it deal of a lifetime: other retailers» customers can go to their favorite online book sites to purchase the books,
which diverts them to Pottermore for the sale, then the original retailers will still send the
ebooks to the consumers» e-reader devices without requiring the downloading to a computer and transferring via cable that many customers have to rely on when purchasing books from sites other than the one that
markets their e-readers.
The key to success with
ebook publishing is a great product
which is well edited, great pricing (this is key) and
marketing.
Barnes and Noble is in the precarious position of only selling
eBooks in the US and UK,
which are ultra-competitive
markets.
One of the early adoption
markets for tablet use, K12 digital textbooks, and a thriving e-commerce site to offer
ebooks was India, but recent reports have shown somewhat stagnant responses,
which experts have attributed to a lack of reliable wifi and internet connectivity throughout the country, as well as concerns about posting credit card information on unreliable digital infrastructure.
Preference for Library purchase model for
ebooks, with much of
market unclear on best option — 40 % want to purchase
ebooks in the Library model, in
which the school owns the texts, and students can check books in and out of a «digital library» on their devices.
Wei Shi, an analyst at Strategy Analytics» wireless media strategies division, said that a significant development in the
eBook market is subscription - based services launched by platforms like Amazon Unlimited,
which have a model similar to how Spotify and Pandora work in the music industry.
If you would like to do more
market research on the Amazon.de
ebook store, you can take a look at the Amazon.de Top 1000 list,
which is refreshed every day.
In that portion, James will discuss what he and his teammates at Forrester are calling «The Kindle Flame,» by
which they mean the next generation of Kindle that might, if it gets certain things right, set the
eBook market fully ablaze as opposed to merely kindled.
Also with fierce competition in the
market, indie authors spend an incredible amount of time and effort
marketing their work so that it reaches their readers,
which includes offering free content and free
ebooks.
I'm trading the indie
ebook market (
which I think the book has peaked in) for the trad pub
ebook market
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The third
ebook market is subscription,
which for this discussion means Kindle Unlimited.
Mark is the author of three free
ebooks which teach
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And although the PPB costs are eliminated, there are still various costs associated with publishing an
ebook, such as cover design, layout & formatting, editing (professional),
marketing and other miscellaneous costs (legal, distribution, author assistant etc) all
which will be shouldered by the author (or publisher).
According to the article, «every other major publisher is drawing up plans to follow suit»
which can only be good for the
eBook market.
And then there's the
ebook - as - an - app potential for the iPad and tablet
market,
which is indisputably cool and the wave of the future, but also requires authors to become software developers, with far greater up - front costs and not as big a revenue stream yet.
However, sales of independently published
ebooks have been growing,
which instead suggests that publishers are losing
ebook market shares to indie authors and Amazon imprints, rather than that the success of digital books and their consumption is dropping overall.