Times are changing, and Spanish
eBooks and Audiobook sales have been dramatically increasing, due to the rise of e-readers and reading apps on tablets.
On the left side, you've got people who will gladly mainline books into their neck veins once Amazon perfects the technique; these are the readers who are causing
ebook and audiobook sales to explode while print sales stagnate.
Not exact matches
Instead of accepting the 25 percent royalty that most authors take for
ebook sales, she now keeps ALL the royalties for Harry Potter
ebooks and audiobooks.
According to the British PA, consumer
ebook sales rose 134 per cent in 2012, reaching # 216million, with total digital
sales up 66 per cent to # 411million (encompassing
ebooks,
audiobooks downloads
and online subscriptions).
They lump
audiobooks and ebooks into a single digital category
and the only the only they say is the decline in
ebook sales were not as pronounce because
audiobook sales have dramatically increased.
The first % is digital
sales (
ebooks and audiobooks); the second is % indie titles.
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And overall, about 70 % of US fiction
sales are online as either
audiobooks or
ebooks.
The first % is the digital
sales (
ebooks and audiobooks); the second % is indie titles.
For the data below, ONLINE means online print
sales,
audiobooks and ebooks.
If you buy the
audiobook through audible
and mail me proof that this is one of the first three
sales you made on audible, I will send you the
eBook plus one of my novels as an
eBook for free (the title is your choice).
You'll see first - hand how the
sales rankings
and bestseller lists work on Amazon for
eBooks, print books,
and audiobooks.
After moving Heaven to Betsy to Pronoun in 2017
and promoting it as free on BookBub, it had no «bump» in audio companion
sales, even though on the Amazon Kindle
sales page it showed the
ebook and audiobook as linked.
That means they are responsible for (including contracting for) cover design, distribution, marketing, ISBNs, layout,
ebook conversion,
audiobook production, front matter, back matter, ARCs, reviews, tracking
sales, tracking expenses versus income to ensure profit, tracking
and reporting
sales tax, etc. (Oh, yeah,
sales tax.
It means free copies of the
audiobook and ebook with the
sale of every hardback.
In the States, the APA's member - publishers who report their figures have seen 20 - percent or better increases in
audiobook sales for two years, 2014
and 2015, making it the kind of sector in publishing that many publishers, weary of the hobbled progress of recent
ebook markets, understandably welcome.
Some companies have produced impressive
ebook apps,
and sales of
audiobooks have dramatically increased since they became available as digital downloads.
Now that
audiobooks are so easy to download
and listen to on our tablets
and phones,
sales are seeing the same kind of exponential growth enjoyed by
ebooks in recent years.
Publishing expert, Jane Friedman also asks whether
ebook buyers are migrating to
audiobooks (where
sales are on the increase)
and whether the more voracious readers have opted for unlimited subscription models.
Hachette has disclosed that 21 % of their revenue derived from
audiobook and ebook sales.
Audiobook and ebook sales now account for 22 % of total revenue for the quarter
and generated $ 82 million dollars.
Canadian book
sales declined 4 % in 2017
and this is primarily due to consumers continuing to purchase
audiobooks and ebooks in greater numbers.
The digital
audiobook and ebook industry desperately needs new
sales channels to fuel growth.
Online print
and audiobook sales (at Amazon
and elsewhere) make up another 14 % — 17 % of trade publishing's unit
sales, while the remaining 45 % — 52 % are
ebooks.
«
Audiobooks have been at a higher price point typically, but I don't know if that's going to continue as the business expands further
and further, but right now I feel that's where the most revenue is made in terms of book
sales versus an
ebook.
Total consumer digital
sales (including consumer
ebooks, downloads
and audiobooks) showed the most rapid... [Read more...]
Total consumer digital
sales (including consumer
ebooks, downloads
and audiobooks) showed the most rapid growth, having increased by 318 % since 2009 from # 4m to # 16m.
She added that the impressive
sales numbers for the first six books of The Godling Chronicles series in both
audiobook and ebook formats,
and their sustained
sales over the past four years, convinced Audible that even a six - figure advance was not much of a risk.
Sales of
ebooks and digital
audiobooks (only) dropped 25 percent to $ 27.4 million.
This
sales profile also indicates to me that choosing to work with established publishers — in this case Tor (for print
and eBooks)
and Audible (for
audiobooks)-- is a smart decision for me.
My own guess, based on watching my
sales profile over the years, is that print,
eBook and audiobook do not inherently cannibalize each others»
sales — it seems to me that for each there is a class of reader that is «native» to each — that is, there is a group of readers who strongly prefers print over
eBook or audio, another group who prefers
eBook strongly to the other formats,
and a third group (correlated, I imagine, with people who have long commutes) who strongly prefer
audiobook.
For running
sales, the best we can hope for is for Amazon to enable Whispersync
and let a listener who already has the
ebook buy the
audiobook for a significantly lower price.
Typically, your
ebook sales will dwarf your
audiobook sales and still be your main bread winner since you're getting a much higher cut of each
sale, but there's nothing wrong with adding some income on the side
and being available
and discoverable in more places.
Many indies have seen a similar drop in
audiobook sales as the subscription model takes hold
and listeners can get
audiobooks for cheap if they own the
ebook.»
She says that her
ebook sales aren't counted «in any official publishing reports, as I don't use ISBNs on
ebooks or
audiobooks and I use free Createspace ISBNs for print.»
As a publisher of
audiobooks and eBooks, Amazon pays us monthly by wire with totally interactive
sales reports available in virtual real time.
It can be a little misleading if you mistakenly interpret the above as the median earnings mix for individual authors, because the majority of those print
sales for both traditionally published authors
and indie authors are nonfiction — generally written by a different set of authors than their fiction counterparts who make the majority of
ebook and audiobook earnings in each category.
And The New York Times» Alexandra Alter, in her engaging «Tech We're Using» piece of last week (January 17), mentioned that among theories for why
ebook sales have been easing in the past couple of years, one idea is that «some
ebook readers have switched to
audiobooks, which are easy to play on your smartphone while you're multitasking.»
Expand your
sales channels
and earn additional revenue by adding your
eBooks and audiobooks to OverDrive» sglobal catalog.
These days traditional publishers often limit authors to a mean - spirited 10 % royalty for print
sales and a better but still mean 25 % for
ebooks and audiobooks.
My principal responsibility was to maintain the customer facing production environment which provides
audiobook and eBook rentals
and sales to libraries
and individuals.