The number
of ebook buyers reportedly stayed constant (2.2 million people, or 3.3 percent of the population).
Well you won't really because
potential eBook buyers likely won't write you to say they decided not to get your book based on it's description.
Anyone with an eye
on ebook buyer behaviour can't fail to have noticed the latest dismal headlines.
And if the next book is genuinely good, I don't
think ebook buyers are going to notice or care you released a bag of trash the first time out.
Ask any long -
time ebook buyer and they will say the same thing: We want the words, and we want cross-platform standardized formatting.
Even though some market segments may well have a much lower percentage
of ebook buyers than others, sales successes are likely to boost the sales of all of a title's formats.
Unless there is a compelling reason,
most ebook buyers won't be looking for the same book in print.
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The iBookstore lawsuit promising partial refunds
for ebook buyers who paid over-the-odds for their downloads is another step closer to making payouts, with cash from Penguin and Macmillan swelling the combined coffers to $ 162.25 m.
Says Rowe: «Traditional publishers priced themselves out of the market, and their 10 % drop in 2017 is just the latest evidence that the value a traditional publisher adds — whether editing, gatekeeping, or marketing — isn't as highly valued
by ebook buyers as a low pricetag.»
According to US Nielsen surveys, while the percentage of the eReading population reading primarily on tablets had increased from 30 % in 2012 to 41 % in 2015, the number of
eBook buyers who used their phones to read at least some of the time increased from 24 % to 54 % in the same period.
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.
Collectively Apple and Kobo have almost two - thirds of
Canadian ebook buyers as does Amazon, with it's approximate 15 million ebook sales.
What about cookbooks full of color pictures, coffee - table books, kids books... none are well - suited to the Kindle or other eBook reader... so
do eBook buyers never buy those books in print?
Indie
ebook buyers buy less backlist titles and they buy at a much higher price level.
The giant ebook distributor said on its website, «In 2011 when we
surveyed ebook buyers and asked them their most common decision factor that guided how they discover and purchase books, the # 2 answer, accounting for 18 % of respondents, was that they first look for books from their favorite authors.
Thereâ $ ™ s an ongoing boycott by
ebook buyers not to purchase ebooks priced above the threshold.
By sticking to this loss - making practice, to create a perception
amongst eBook buyers that they should not have to pay more than $ 9.99 for an eBook, and to thereby, over time, force publishers to drop their retail prices for eBooks.
You'll want a tablet for email, web, video, all kinds of things, but if you're a reader — we do this, we've done this research and it's very easy to do: Take someone who is a heavy
Kindle ebook buyer and is a heavy tablet user, and then show them a Kindle PaperWhite for the first time and they won't give it back.
With 42 percent citing that they buy / download an eBook immediately after becoming interested in it for the first time, there is a captive audience of
impulse eBook buyers that merchants can cater to with a simple and secure checkout process so their customers can instantly dive into the book.
No
wonder ebook buyers are nuying less as we realize how easy it is to loose our books when we can buy hard copy for the same price.
Unlike ebook buyers, library patrons have demonstrated a preference for thrillers and literary fiction, relegating romance to third place.
Many have proposed that the settlements the publishers in the case have had to pay out — much of which will again be in the form of compensation to the
actual ebook buyers — will be so detrimental that the publishers will have to reduce their operations and not take risks on debut authors until their losses are recovered.
I can't see this as anything but a convenient excuse for publishers to jack up ebook prices, which they've always wanted to do but been prevented by retailers like Amazon, who have the gall to claim they know something about
what ebook buyers are willing to pay.
According to the report, Kindle owners are larger -
volume ebook buyers than non-Kindle owners.
Even so, I'm still astounded at the sheer lunacy of B&N's ongoing actions that seem calculated to
drive ebook buyers away.
With the majority of
ebook buyers owning Kindles, the industry's insistence on DRM thus ties readers to the very company that many within publishing see as a far greater threat to it than piracy, thanks to its increasing domination of both the print and ebook markets.
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Better still, the niche market segment of
eBook buyer promotes the sales of books as a spin - off for personal collections.
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Most of the
serious ebook buyers and readers are on Amazon's Kindle platform — as are most of the independent authors.