Sentences with phrase «ebook units sold»

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As e-reader sales begin to increase this holiday season — an estimated 24.5 million units sold according to IMS Research, which is expected to double eBook sales year over year according to the Association of American Publishers — authors have a great opportunity to capitalize on current reader trends and increase visibility for their works to new audiences.

After all, they were using ebooks to sell high priced devices and even if they make more money per ebook sold it won't compensate them for selling fewer units of the Kindle.

The bookseller chalked up the disappointing Nook revenue to «lower unit selling volume» and dwindling ebook sales, particularly when compared to the release of The Hunger Games and Fifty Shades of Grey trilogies this time last year.

of all book sales in the U.S., and with more than 60 % of all units (print and eBook) being sold via an online retailer, it's become increasingly easy to create a digital book and toss it into the marketplace, without the need for a physical product or a third - party publisher.

With 1.5 million eBooks available to buy now and «thousands» of free titles available in ePub, mobile and PDF formats, Borders is expecting this to help it sell more units of physical eReaders — and says sales of the Kobo eReader and Aluratek Libre through the chain have already «surpassed sales expectations.»

With eBooks accounting for 30 - 35 % of all book sales in the U.S., and with more than 60 % of all units (print and eBook) being sold via an online retailer, it's become increasingly easy to create a digital book and toss it into the marketplace, without the need for a physical product or a third - party publisher.

This went on to sell millions of units in the months leading up to the holidays and sold 1 million ebooks on Christmas Day alone.

Less than five years after it was launched, Kobo Writing Life established itself as the # 1 single source of weekly global unit sales for Kobo and, in primarily English language territories, responsible for 1 in every 4 eBooks sold.

Despite selling fewer units, Print books out earned Ebooks in 2017.

The only foreseeable advantage I see, other than making us nuts (which while fun, probably doesn't help amazon's bottom dollar), is to grow more home - grown kindle authors and to have more people buy into Author Central, thereby, in the end, making for lower ebook prices (which equals more units sold) and no traditional publisher middle man.

The new ebooks are poised to sell a number of units and boost sales for major online retailers.

Kobo has just released new data that takes a look at the ebooks that sold the most units this year in Canada and the United States.

Kobo thought they had another in when Google pulled out of supplying indie bookstores with digital content and Kobo picked up the contract, but bookstores weren't particularly keen on cannibalizing their own book sales to earn a few dollars for each unit sold, and a feeble commission structure for each ebook sold.

Ebook sales were down 8 % in the young adult category, falling to 4 million units sold.

And Amazon reports that their sales of ebooks are up this year in both units sold and revenue, so they are getting more customers from somewhere.

It does not look like they are on - track to meet their eBook goals, but at least the units are selling.

For trade fiction, we are probably around 65 % — 75 % ebook right now in terms of units sold.

I mean, if you're unit of measurement is 50 shades and Locke's How I sold x millions ebooks - then it's not a worthwhile yardstick.

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.

Kindle books are electronic documents made popular by Amazon's Kindle ebook reader, of which over three million units had been sold by 2010.

Considering the combination of tablet sales from January to February 2012 (4,089 units sold), readers are voicing their opinion to consume eBooks continually.

And there's also the fact that looking at unit sales is possibly misleading — if you sell 1,000 copies of a book at $ 1 each, you might be getting way more unit sales than an ebook going for $ 10 each, but the revenue will still be low.

Amazon has just cut the price of the Kindle 2 in the US, suggesting the intermittent supply problems the retailer experienced may have finally been resolved, or that it's angling to sell more units of the ebook reader by reducing the cost.

As one of the authors listed in the Konrath piece, I probably should point out — although, yes, it's rather anecdotal at this point — I was selling 1000 units a month in ebook with only one title.

But we do know that back in early 2013 both Amazon and Barnes & Noble separately issued press releases announcing that self - published indie ebooks made up more than 25 % of units sold.

Publish wholesale prices for ebooks, payable by anyone who sells at least 100 units per year per publisher, create and publish an API, and let anyone who wants to run an ebook store as a front - end to the publishers» systems and charge whatever price they want as long as the publisher gets their wholesale price.

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.

Amazon sold out of its first Kindle units in under six hours and continued to dominate the small but growing ebook space throughout 2008.

We have 1/2 of a quarter of reduced Hatchette shipments in, and by the way, Amazon still sold more units of both books and ebooks than the pre-dispute quarter.

«Finally, publishers are putting up front huge amounts of money for trade books and on the back end the game is changing from shipping 100,000 units at $ 15 net (which we count as income) to now shipping 75,000 and selling ebooks one at a time at net $ 10 with no up front payments.»

Fictionwise, owned by Barnes & Noble since 2009, was one of the largest electronic book sellers in North America with an estimated 1.5 million ebook content units sold in 2008.

By the end of 2016, Kobo Writing Life established itself as the # 1 single source of weekly global unit sales for Kobo and, in primarily English language territories, responsible for 1 in every 4 eBooks sold.

He comes out and says «Obviously, when you're selling units so inexpensively, you're going to sell more of those than, for example, a $ 14 paperback print book» and thinks he's making a point against eBooks.

Even though publishers were reaping the benefits of Amazon's successful efforts to vastly expand the consumer base and increase volume of units sold via Amazon's investment in eBook sales, publishers also feared Amazon's $ 9.99 pricing.

According to Digital Book World that refers to the study, the share of sold eBook has remained 30 % in units and 15 % in dollars.

Following the study from the BISG, there have been hardly any changes in terms of new eBooks sold in units and dollars.

On ebook unit sales, the AAP's share of all Kindle ebooks sold dropped progressively from 45 % in February 2014 to under 32 % in September 2015.