As you can see, Apple is missing half of the 10 titles on this week's
ebook bestseller lists (narrowed down to just self - published titles).
We start with a simple counting of the number of titles on Amazon's
ebook bestseller lists.
The increasing prevalence of lower - priced Big Five titles has had no measurable effect on the Big Five's share of titles on Amazon's daily - sales - based
ebook bestseller lists.
Go and check out the most popular
ebook bestseller lists curated by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Amazon, or Barnes & Noble.
The return to agency pricing by two of the Big Five has had no measurable effect on the Big Five's share of titles on Amazon's daily - sales - based
ebook bestseller lists.
In the chart above, we see the number of KU titles in Amazon
ebook bestseller lists by publisher type.
Mark Coker presents Hit
the Ebook Bestseller Lists with Preorders — A Guide to Preorder Strategy posted at Smashwords Blog, saying, «Ebook preorders are one of the most powerful book launch tools introduced over the last five years.
They lost extremely valuable real estate on
the ebook bestseller lists, and they may not get it back.
@Joe: «Right now,
the ebook bestseller lists are dominated by habit.
Looking at the Number of Titles in B&N's
eBook Bestseller Lists, 53 % are indie - published titles.
It enabled me to compete successfully with the world's most prominent authors, including your own, soaring past them to the very top of
the ebook bestseller lists with my debut thriller.
Not only does Stephen Leather, Britain's leading «independent» writer, estimate he has occupied the number one spot on Amazon.co.uk's Kindle
ebook bestseller lists for «90 % of the last three months», he is also selling «somewhere in the region» of 2,000 ebooks a day — and making big profits in the process.
Not only does Stephen Leather, Britain's leading «independent» writer, estimate he has occupied the number one spot on Amazon.co.uk's Kindle
ebook bestseller lists for «90 % of the last three...
In fact, the average prices of
ebook bestseller lists have shown a fairly consistent downward trend for the past year as more and more titles exit agency price controls and enter the free market.»
For much of 2011 his self - published eBooks - including The Bestseller, The Basement, Once Bitten and Dreamer's Cat - dominated the UK
eBook bestseller lists and sold more than half a million copies.
If you check
the ebook bestseller lists, you'll see that self - publishing novelists charge very little for their work in comparison to traditional publishers, usually between $ 0.99 and $ 4.99.
Statistics from two recent surveys on self - publishing show that indie authors dominate
eBook bestseller lists by a whopping 54 %.
He provides the data and analysis that power the Digital Book World
ebook bestseller lists.
DBW just came out with a better, but not perfect,
ebook bestseller list and it is even more dominated by traditional publishing, at least on the surface.
Which leads to: 2) Looking at a chart like, say, number of titles in
ebook bestseller list.
The most preordered book in Audible history (Audible's Most Wanted 2017) had a phenomenal debut across formats, hitting # 1 on the NY Times Hardcover Fiction list, # 1 on the Audible list, # 2 on the NY Times combined print /
ebook bestseller list, # 6 on the Sunday Times of London hardcover list in the UK, and more bestseller lists across the globe.
A one - day Kindle Daily Deal can drive enough sales to propel a title onto the New York Times (s NYT)
ebook bestseller list for just one week.
In fact, the Times» Sunday Book Review stopped printing
the ebook bestseller list right as that list was being peppered with self - published titles.
My co-authored novel with Clive Cussler, The Eye Of Heaven, broke out in its first week at # 2 on the New York Times
ebook bestseller list, and # 5 on the hardcover print list.
It is a fast - growing online community of digital media professionals and a producer of the market - leading live event Digital Book World Conference + Expo, the Digital Book Awards,
ebook bestsellers list as well as online education via webcasts and downloadable digital publishing resources.
Her eBook, The Mill River Recluse, a self - described «quiet, literary» novel (typically very hard to sell) made The New York Times
eBook bestseller list in August; The Wall Street Journal list of fiction bestsellers in October; and sold hundreds of thousands of copies (at $ 0.99) since it was first uploaded in May of this year.
Let's take a look at the Amazon
ebook bestseller list.
According to the trends in 2016, indie books represent 27 % of books on Amazon's
ebook bestseller list.
That said, self - published authors are not uncommon on the New York Times
ebook bestseller list, as well as Amazon bestseller lists.
New York Times will have a separate
ebook bestseller list beginning in 2011 which means that authors like the Harlequin Presents authors who are routinely showing up on the USA Today list and the self published authors that are ranked high on Kindle might show up instead of others.
I suspect, however, that
the ebook bestseller list will largely mirror that of the print list because frankly ebook reader tastes aren't so different than digital reader tastes if the existing top selling lists at Amazon are any marker.
Not exact matches
At some point Dan and I flew into New York City during a hurricane, got interviewed on The Today Show and The View, and celebrated the release of A Year of Biblical Womanhood, which you helped catapult to the New York Times
Bestseller list for
ebooks.
As one of the authors, John Scalzi, pointed out, if the first day of
ebook bundle purchases was counted by the New York Times, all the authors would be on the
bestseller list and this clearly demonstrates the worth of the format.
A few million
ebooks later, Smashwords is a widely - respected and highly - profitable company that has launched a number of authors and has had a surprising number of titles distributed through their platform reach the
bestseller lists.
But readers were all over those early 99 - cent
ebooks because they were such a bargain, and numerous self - published authors leaped to the tops of the
bestseller lists.
The industry as a whole is starting to take
ebooks more seriously, including publishing
bestseller lists.
Kobo eReading Catalog - Kobo has a world - class
eBook catalog with over three million titles, including award winners,
bestsellers, Indie Next
List picks, free public - domain titles, and other recommendations.
But 4 of the top 10
bestsellers are «50 Shades of Grey»,
listed as a Random House
ebook.
(I just checked the top ten fiction
bestsellers on Amazon from the last New York Timesbestseller
list and indeed all are priced at $ 9.99 in
eBook format, with the exception of the one title noted by the WSJas not available as an
eBook.)
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You'll see first - hand how the sales rankings and
bestseller lists work on Amazon for
eBooks, print books, and audiobooks.
Because B&N + Amazon represent roughly 90 % of
ebooks sold in the US, pairing those two is a pretty good basis for a
bestseller list (with the weight on Amazon, because they own roughly 70 - 75 % of sales).
The report also suggests that a ghost - written
eBook which was riddled with errors got to the top of the
bestseller list for $ 56 (USD$ 86 or AUD$ 116)
Then the NY Times factors
eBooks into their
bestseller list.
While it's great that
eBooks are even getting acknowledged in
bestseller lists, I'm certain that separating out these numbers has significantly impacted reporting.
Bestseller lists themselves are increasingly either gamed by publishers or by
ebook retailers themselves who are trying to shift their sales in one direction or another.
Some shady recent practices in digital publishing have caused a number of critics to rail against that concept that an
ebook can be repurposed to further an agenda by artificially driving a title up the
bestseller list through a number of dishonest practices.
Notable success stories include a number of self - published authors landing their titles onto the prestigious New York Times
bestseller list for
ebook fiction.»
His personal formula for writing and publishing through platforms like CreateSpace for his print editions and online platforms for
ebooks has resulted in twenty - five books on the
bestseller list, featured articles in the Wall Street Journal and other major newspapers, and a book co-written with Clive Cussler, to be published later this year.
(Many of the
bestseller lists are still handling
ebooks in somewhat awkward ways.)