I can almost guarantee that your publisher doesn't know you can have ten
eBook categories for your book.
Stolen Dreams by Christine Amsden is a finalist in the
Fiction eBook Category for The Next Generation Indie Awards (2016).
Over the years, Amazon has created various
eBook categories based on previous user searches — few of these actually match the BISAC ones mentioned earlier.Now, I know that an unlimited number of categories may seem daunting at first, so let's walk through how to identify the best category for your book.
Unlike other important metadata elements like title, subtitle, description and keywords, major online stores vary in how they
handle eBook categories.
According to Alexis Petric - Black, Publisher Account Services Manager at OverDrive, «The Read -
Along eBook category is one of our highest growth areas.
«The JB HiFi online and digital ecosystems are a perfect environment for us to engage our customers with the rapidly
growing ebook category, linking in with our extensive IT hardware offer and popular gift card program.»
No numbers or even percentages were given, but Amazon reported what it called «very good progress» in its
non ebook categories.
The top five fiction
ebook categories reported by respondents are bestsellers, mystery / suspense, romance, general adult fiction, and YA fiction, while the top five nonfiction categories are bestsellers, biographies / memoirs, history, self - help, and cooking.
In high schools, reference books, young adult fiction, and young adult nonfiction are, in descending order, the three
leading ebook categories, while middle - grade fiction, middle - grade nonfiction, and reference ebooks were the top three categories for middle schools.
That yielded equally accurate absolute numbers for the other,
non-AAP-measured ebook categories: non-participating Small / Medium Publishers, Indie Published books, and those from Amazon Pub Imprints.
The company's services include a marketplace offering professional assistance with various aspects of publishing, a ranking of
relevant eBook category options based on current competitiveness, keyword recommendations based on popular searches, and MOBI and EPUB files for personal distribution.
Stolen Dreams by Christine Amsden is a finalist in the
Fiction eBook Category for The Next Generation Indie Awards (2016) and the winner in the Fiction Fantasy / Contemporary category of the 2015 Global eBook Awards.
Stolen Dreams won gold in the Fiction Fantasy / Contemporary category of the 2015 Global eBook Awards and was a finalist in the Fiction
eBook Category for The Next Generation Indie Awards.
According to Publishers Weekly «Adult fiction remained the most
popular ebook category — 44 % of sales in the category were in the digital format — but ebook sales in the segment dropped 14 % from 2016, to 108 million units.
Feel free to choose from over 20
ebook categories.
Now browse to the «Sci Fi, Fantasy and Horror» ebooks section, type «peter hamilton» into the same box, and instead of the results, you get a listing of the whole of the Fiction
ebooks category, some 38,000 books.
We will send details about your promotion to all our subscribers which are interested in
your eBook category, so the exposure will be focused and effective.
Amazon's Kindle app covers
the eBooks category.
The four Enhanced NOOK Books to be nominated in
the ebook category at the first annual Cynopsis Kids Awards are Go Dog Go!
Awards are granted in 14 categories, including
an ebook category.
Interestingly, Amazon's KDP,
eBook categories are more expansive than the print book.
To find
the eBook categories, head to the Kindle Store on the Amazon site.
First off, let's talk about whether you can have ten
eBook categories for your book.
CT: With study after study showing rapid growth in the children's
ebook category, what do you think the future children's ebook market will look like?