Sentences with phrase «ebook unit market»
Next on the list of publishing predictions is an increase in eBook unit market share.
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It's a numbers game: like it or not, independent publishing already gives almost half the ebook unit sales of the market and seems unstoppable.
In less than two years, in fact, the market share of paid unit sales between indie (mainly self - publishing, but includes small presses) and Big 5 eBooks has more than inverted.
The per - unit option takes into consideration the early market nature of eBooks where publishers may not achieve significant revenues until this market ramps up.
The author portal also offers useful tools, like a sales heat map that authors can use to geo - target their marketing efforts and, for Amazon Publishing authors, a beta program that lists daily Kindle ebook unit sales.
Ebooks have a much smaller share of the adult nonfiction market, 12 %, but sales in the segment rose 3 % last year, to 38 million unit.»
With so many digital reading devices in the market, bodes well for the future of their ebook unit.
Amazon has a dominant market share when it comes to ebooks and their Audible unit.
Shipments of ebook readers by year - end will fall to 14.9 million units, down a steep 36 percent from the 23.2 million units in 2011 that now appears to have been the peak of the ebook reader market.
In 2011, dedicated ebook readers saw shipments of 23.2 million units, a number that now appears to have been the peak of the ebook reader market.
The Retail Gorilla — According to AuthorEarnings.Com — the overall market share of US ebook unit sales is dominated by Amazon at 74 % with the balance held by other online retailers: GooglePlay, Kobo, Nook, Apple, and miscellaneous others.
According to the Association of American Publishers and the Book Industry Study Group, by 2010, ebooks represented 6.2 % of the total unit market share with nearly 112 million units sold, compared to only nine million units sold in 2008.
This idea involves indie booksellers actually marketing their stores to Kindle owners (or substitute another ebook brand here, provided that certain compatibilities exist) and inviting the Kindlers to bring their Kindle units into their neighborhood bookstores.
«Authors have come to realize that as self - publishing ebook author, they can enjoy faster time to market, four to five times greater per - unit royalties, greater creative control, and greater price competitiveness than traditionally published authors,» asserts Coker.
They're pricing the ebook to fit their existing, per - unit revenue model instead of fixing their model to fit a market with a rapidly increasing digital component.
Although the UK ebook market is less than a fifth of the size of the US market in unit sales or revenue terms — Amazon.co.uk still sells more ebooks than any of the non-Amazon US retailers do in the US.
As the power of the «Big Five» publishers (Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Penguin Random House, and Simon & Schuster) in the US ebook market wanes, self - publishing authors have overtaken them in terms of unit sales.
Today, Hanvon is the leader in the eBook reader market in China with 95 % of the market share, shipping close to 100,000 units in December 2009, ten times more than the previous year.
prices were up 10 % but their «Market Share of Ebook Unit Sales» went down from ~ 39 % to ~ 29 %?
By most estimates, indie ebook authors have captured between 20 and 30 % ebook market share measured by unit volume (and much more in some genres), and this share will continue to grow in the years ahead because indie ebook authors enjoy numerous competitive advantages over traditional publishers
What we see from the graphs above is that all the reporting lately on the plateauing or decline in ebook adoption is certainly true for major publishers, whose numbers are being used as if they represent the broader market, but their daily unit sales are less than a third of the total market.
I wonder how much of that represents a separate market from ebook purchases, and how much of it is actually competing with paid units.
When one makes the fatal mistake of relying on ISBNs to estimate the ebook market, only 10 % of unit sales and 7 % of gross consumer ebook dollars appear to be going to self - published books.
Despite the Big Five's slight uptick in unit - sales market share, their share of consumer ebook dollars has continued to drop — albeit less steeply than in previous quarters.
At the same time as the association was reporting a drop in overall eBook sales, Amazon, the retailer with the majority of the US eBook market, reported increases in sales in terms of both units and revenue.
An other observation: «When one makes the fatal mistake of relying on ISBNs to estimate the ebook market, only 10 % of unit sales and 7 % of gross consumer ebook dollars appear to be going to self - published books.»
The AuthorEarnings [AE] methodology gives us highly detailed visibility into the relative ebook market shares (in both units and dollars) for each sector of publishing (Big 5, Small / Medium Publisher, Indie Published, and Amazon Pub Imprints).
Although David can not confirm the accuracy of this data or whatsoever regarding the actual unit sales, his closest assumption is 25 % of self - publishers garner eBook market share in the US.
In his recent New Insights on eBook Unit Sales from Nielsen, Michael Cader at Publishers Lunch had a couple of explanatory paragraphs about how the traditional publishing market action is reported.
From a unit market share perspective today, indie authors probably control 15 - 20 % of the ebook market with much variation across retailers and categories.
A massive new survey by AuthorEarnings shows that in two years, the market share of paid unit sales between indie and Big 5 ebooks has more than reversed.