Big publishers like Bloomsbury are currently improving
their ebook sales by trying different channels and models.
The triptych of slides below make that case with glaring starkness: in them, we can see Big Five debut authors dropping from 22 % of
ebook sales by debut authors in early 2014, down to barely 9 % of those vital, career - launching initial sales in early 2016.
Countering this decline has been an increase in
ebook sales by independent publishers (those not linked to the Big Four) and self - published authors, most of which is through Amazon, with small proportions through self - publishing services such as Smashwords.
It's bad enough that Publishers are indirectly handicapping
eBook sales by raising prices and introducing delays.
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So far, juvenile ebook sales lag behind adult
ebook sales by a significant margin.
Of course, the publishers» take per copy also was reduced, a point the publishers no doubt made as they prevailed on the agents to accept a change they believed was necessary to prevent a potential perpetual monopoly on
ebook sales by Amazon.
In it, we went over some of the reactions to the American Association of Publishers» (AAP) recent numbers (based on the input of some 1,200 publishers), indicating that, as Michael Cader wrote at Publishers Lunch, «
ebook sales by established trade publishers are in decline.»
Publishers begin to realize geographic territory rights hinder
ebook sales by limiting distribution, and will instead look to carve rights (or hold on them) language by language.
The big guys are KILLING
our ebook sales by refusing to price them reasonably.
And while Amazon's Kindle store alone doesn't comprise the entire US ebook market, it does account for 67 % of all traditionally - published
ebook sales by most accounts.
With almost 400,000 books self - published in the US last year, Coker posited that indie authors represented 15 % of the ebook market for 2013, and that a «fairly conservative» estimate would give them more than a third (35 %) of the overall trade book market in seven years, and 50 % of
ebook sales by the year 2020.
As the founder of self - publishing platform Smashwords predicted that «indie ebooks will account for 50 % of
ebook sales by 2020», and as debate rages over whether self - published writers should be allowed to call themselves professional authors, Berkoff announced that he would be joining the self - publishing «revolution».
I think indie ebooks will account for 50 % of
ebook sales by 2020.
-LSB-...] My Self - Publishing Thoughts After 50,000 +
Ebook Sales by Lindsay Buroker.
Not exact matches
The New York Times, for example, says
ebook sales fell
by 10 % in the first five months of this year, according to the Association of American Publishers, which collects data from nearly 1,200 publishers.
I wouldn't pay $ 22 for the best
ebook in the world — and obviously no one else will either, if my
sales reports are anything to go
by (and yes, although Sex, Bombs and Burgers is a veritable thrill ride, it probably isn't the best
ebook in the world in anyone's mind besides my own).
The LA Times says that total
eBook sales were $ 966 million, and will top $ 3 billion
by the middle of the decade.
This past week I ran a 60 % off
sale on all my
eBooks, and a 30 % off
sale on paperbacks and books
by other authors.
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You will not miss out on a potential
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by clicking «Paperback, Hardcover and
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And because Amazon slashes royalty rates
by half if an
eBook is priced under $ 2.99, your final income on that
sale might be pennies on the dollar.
Forty - three per cent plan to start their
ebook sales this year with most looking to kick off in the next few months, according to a pre-Christmas survey of Australian booksellers conducted
by Bookseller + Publisher.
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.
One of those is having complete control of your
sales, meaning: if you want to hook people up with free
ebooks, then
by all means, do so.
This would be consistent with earlier claims
by Amazon's Jeff Bezos that, where a book is available in both e - and p - formats, about 35 % of
sales are
ebooks.
We can all agree that
eBook sales are dramatically increasing, and there is a steady decline in print
sales (but not as acutely as
eBook sales going up, not
by a long shot).
If you request that a
eBook be withdrawn from
sale, Barnes & Noble will make commercially reasonable efforts to terminate the future
sale of your
eBook by the tenth (10th) business day after you submit your request for withdrawal, provided however that Barnes & Noble shall continue to be able to distribute such
eBook to past purchasers of that
eBook.»
According to a Publishers Weekly summary of an Association of American Publishers (AAP) study, while overall book
sales were down 2 % in 2012, adult book
sales increased
by 5.6 % partly due to a 33 % rise in adult
ebook purchases.
Judging
by sales figures it would seem that the English perceive
ebooks to be nothing more than yet another passing fad from across the pond in the good -LSB-...]
With print
sales falling
by 10 % last year, and book purchasing as a whole down 4 %,
ebook sales were reported to have grown, according to Nielsen's tracking of book purchases, up 20 % in the UK in 2013, with 80m
ebooks bought
by UK consumers, to a value of # 300m.
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The top news of the week touched upon waning
ebook sales for trad pubs, the EU's recent ruling that
ebooks aren't books, the new Author Earnings Dashboard, the getting -
by attitude, and the indie startup mindset.
This is especially beneficial for authors who write in genres that are dominated
by eBook sales.
I think if
ebooks published
by the traditional publishers were priced more realisticly,
sales would improve but as long as
ebooks are priced above what the print version goes for,
sales will remain upside down.
E-Book
sales declined
by 4.6 % over the first four months of 2017 and the format generated $ 374.9 dollars, during the same period of 2016 total
ebook sales were over $ 392.9.
According to a recent survey
by Nielsen Books,
eBook sales made up 23 % of unit
sales for the first six months of 2014, while hardcover's accounted for 25 % and paperbacks 42 %.
Bear in mind that this does not include
sales by self - published authors, which is the fastest growing segment in
ebooks thanks to the many new tools and options available.
Traditionally published books are on
sale here and there, and some blacklists have lower prices, but in most cases all traditionally published
ebooks are 6,99 + Go to: «Kindle eBooks: Advanced Search,» type in the parameters that you are interested in and set «Sort Results by: Price: High t
ebooks are 6,99 + Go to: «Kindle
eBooks: Advanced Search,» type in the parameters that you are interested in and set «Sort Results by: Price: High t
eBooks: Advanced Search,» type in the parameters that you are interested in and set «Sort Results
by: Price: High to Low.
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.
In Canada, the Amazon Imprint footprint is a much more modest 3 % of all
ebook sales, largely due to the substantial shares of the overall Candian
ebook market held
by Kobo (25 %) and Apple (14 %).»
Not a day goes
by that I don't see people asking for
ebook sales.
PricewaterhouseCoopers estimates «consumer
eBooks will drive $ 8.2 billion in
sales by 2017, surpassing projected print book
sales, which it thinks will shrink
by more than half during that period.»
How can you trust any conclusion about the overall direction of
ebook sales when 30 % of
ebook sales in the US are simply not being counted
by the AAP?
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sales of your other books.
There are also some individual authors, such as Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross, who strongly believe they boost their
sales by making some of their books available as free
ebooks — and who also understand what libraries do for building their audience and attracting new buyers.
I used to stress about bad reviews, my ego throbbing like a bee sting, but then I read something
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