PTD is complete for each title — the publishers report all
their ebook sales at all of their retailer accounts — but incomplete for the business as a whole, since it only represents reporting publishers.
If anything, compared to May, traditional publishers are now making a smaller share of their consumer
ebook sales at sub - $ 10 price points.
My apologies it's taking so long to get to it, but I've been pretty busy with other shiny and distracting stuff, including an up to date, comprehensive, and high - precision analysis of
ebook sales at: — Apple US iBookstore — Barnes & Noble Nook store — Kobo US store
The decline in
ebook sales at the Nook Store reflects consumers shifting their purchases elsewhere, not pulling out of the market entirely.
(Last we checked,
ebook sales at all the other retailers put together added up to less than a third of Amazon's ebook sales.
During those heady first years of digital disruption, a few pioneering scribes jumped in and showed massive
ebook sales at the 99 cents price point.
-LSB-...] Important Publishing Developments Authors Should Know (Jane Friedman) It's commonly said that in the United States, overall trade book sales are divided about 70 - 30 print - digital, and that
ebook sales at traditional publishing houses are flat to declining.
(And with that noted, we could speculate as to whether any publisher attempt to standardize
eBook sales at $ 9.99 would have been successful, especially as Amazon was encouraging self - publishing both as revenue stream for it and as leverage with publishers to drive down individual unit sales of eBooks.
Which makes
ebook sales at Amazon.co.uk of interest to authors everywhere.
Two, as I noted back in 2010, I have a sneaking suspicion that if Amazon had prevailed and capped
eBook sales at $ 9.99, publishers would have responded by standardizing * all * eBook prices at $ 9.99, i.e., the eBook price would not have dropped in concert with the paperback price.
Ebook sales at Amazon have grown by 70 percent year over year, says Bezos, making it a multibillion - dollar category for the company.
Oyster and Scribd are the two fastest - growing retail channels at Smashwords at a time when industry - wide
ebook sales at conventional ebook retailers are anemic.
Digital
eBook sales at Simon & Schuster are seeing strong growth in the second financial quarter of 2012.
While ebook sales accounted for only about $ 250 million for the retailer last year, their current projections are putting
ebook sales at more than $ 2 billion by 2015.
The big five publishers in the last calendar year have managed to hang on to more than half of
all ebook sales at Apple and Barnes & Noble Nook.
Having gone from
no ebook sales at the publication of her first book to almost a third of her sales being digital must have been a period of curious transition for Hillary Jordan.
Kindle is the big leader in eBook sales (having been around for almost 5 years now), but iPad is catching up with currently nearly a quarter of
all eBook sales at last count.
By January 2011,
ebook sales at Amazon had even surpassed paperback sales.
Self - published indie authors are verifiably capturing at least 20 % — 35 % of all multi-country
ebook sales at each retailer.
In other words, the publisher probably wouldn't get
the ebook sale at all if the owner of the print copy had to pay full price for the ebook, but at a reduced price, the publisher makes at least some money.
Not exact matches
Fortune magazine seems to disagree with the «
ebook sales are falling» claim,
at least as of September of last year.
The world's largest online retailer and the huge publisher have for months been in a nasty and
at times public battle reportedly over the share each company would get for
eBook sales.
My
ebooks are priced
at 4.95 with Ridan because they did run a lot of numbers looking
at pricing with Michael J. Sullivan's books and determined that
sales in that niche were maximized
at the 4.95 price point.
Everyone from John Scalzi to the L.A. Times took a shot
at questioning, distinguishing, undermining, spinning, and just plain refuting Amazon's assertion that reducing
ebook prices would result in more
sales and bigger profits for publishers and authors.
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sales of
eBooks and corresponding Royalties.
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at www.myidentifiers.com (this will start the process of getting your book's data out to the world and make it easier for the
sales to be tracked.)
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If you look
at the offerings for free on Amazon or Barnes and Noble, you see «sneak peeks» offered by traditional publishers for
ebooks that they have for
sale in those venues.
I've been hearing readers complain about rising
ebook prices and spotted more than a few
at $ 12.99, $ 17.99, even $ 29.99, but I hadn't yet seen the numbers on how this affects
sales.
Is no greater than the
eBook's List Price
at any other retailer, website, or
sales channel.
Amazon sell approximately one million kindle eReaders per month and have approximately 80 % of the
eBook sales worldwide
at time of writing.
The latest US book industry
sales figures from the Association of American Publishers show
ebooks are now tracking
at 9 % of domestic trade book revenue for the 8 - month period January to August 2010.
Not only have
ebook sales passed hardback
sales at Amazon, now they've passed paperbacks.
The latest US book industry
sales figures from the Association of American Publishers show
ebooks are now tracking
at 9 % of domestic trade book revenue for the 8 - month period January... Read more >
Back in the spring of 2011, Evan Schnittman,
at the time Bloomsbury's director of
sales and marketing, declared that enhanced
ebooks were dead.
You will adjust the List Price as required to ensure that,
at all times that the
eBook is available for
sale through NOOK Press, the List Price does not exceed the maximum list price or go below the minimum list price permitted in our Pricing and Payment Terms.
In addition to the concerns already listed above, I'm cringing
at wording like: «We will have the sole discretion in determining all marketing and promotion related to the
sale of your
eBook through NOOK Press.....
I still don't understand how publishers can hope to see their
sales of
ebooks rise while pricing them
at, essentially, the same level as a printed paper book.
Also,
ebook sales may be flat or dropping
at the big publishing houses, mostly because they have raised prices since the return of agency pricing.
«KindleUnlimited indie page reads (
at a current run rate of $ 180M + / yr) are now paying Amazon - exclusive indie authors far more total dollars than «wide» indie authors are earning from their
sales at all non-Amazon
ebook retailers combined (a total run rate of roughly $ 50M / yr in non-Amazon indie author earnings).»
Sales of
eBooks reached $ 3 billion
at the end of 2012, up from $ 68 million in 2008 according to a recent article posted onYahoo!
Much like the headache of licensing
ebooks to libraries stateside, Japanese patrons and librarians have been frustrated by the lack of bestselling and new release content available for digital lending, for many of the same reasons that publishers in the US have balked
at making their entire catalogs available to libraries, namely fears that print
sales will decline.
Self - published or legacy published,
ebooks are still holding ground
at around one - fourth of total book
sales.
This report, which showed a 10.5 % increase in digital
sales, comes
at a time when the debate around
ebooks and their viability from different angles is starting to... [Read more...]
A number of authors have criticized the concept of free book giveaways or listing
ebooks at substantially lower prices, based on the belief that this will translate into not only higher rates of piracy, but also lost
sales from readers who would have otherwise paid full price.
He wants a great read
at a great price, and as
ebook sales and retailers» profits have demonstrated, he wants it relatively conveniently.
The large argument
at the time was that if
ebooks were given away for free
at the library, it would cannibalize the physical and digital
sales.
Quote ««KindleUnlimited indie page reads (
at a current run rate of $ 180M + / yr) are now paying Amazon - exclusive indie authors far more total dollars than «wide» indie authors are earning from their
sales at all non-Amazon
ebook retailers combined (a total run rate of roughly $ 50M / yr in non-Amazon indie author earnings).
At Hachette, they were down 1.1 % to 14.5 m, while at HarperCollins, when sales from Harlequin Mills & Boon are excluded (the company was acquired halfway through 2014), ebook sales were down 4.7
At Hachette, they were down 1.1 % to 14.5 m, while
at HarperCollins, when sales from Harlequin Mills & Boon are excluded (the company was acquired halfway through 2014), ebook sales were down 4.7
at HarperCollins, when
sales from Harlequin Mills & Boon are excluded (the company was acquired halfway through 2014),
ebook sales were down 4.7 %.
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