The fact that traditionally published
ebook sales fell 10 % last year isn't the full picture.
US
eBook sales fell by 18.7 % in the first nine months of 2016, while UK sales dropped 17 % across the year, reports CNN.
AAP: Publisher
eBook Sales Fell almost 5 % in 2017 9 May 2018 (The Digital Reader) Trade revenues were essentially flat (a 1.3 % increase), while ebook revenues fell 4.7 %.
HC CEO Brian Murray said during a conference call that despite the fact that
eBook sales fell for the full year, sales of digital audio had solid gains and HC increased its digital business with libraries.
Within the fiction genre, it was no surprise that the highest percentage of
ebook sales fell under the literary / classics category.
That is crazy how far
ebook sales fell.
Publishing conglomerates Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster are facing tough times this quarter as
ebook sales fell and total profit dropped 5.6 % at S&S and approximately 12 % for RPH.
Traditionally published children's ebooks fell 22 % in 2017, while young adult
ebook sales fell 8 %.
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.
: Most people will automatically do this when
their eBook sales fall in the tank.
From commentator Mike Shatzkin in The Publishing World Is Changing, But There Is One Big Done That Has Not Yet Barked (Mike likes those long headlines) to Thad McIlroy in Why Are
Ebook Sales Falling?
The APP has also found that
eBooks sales fell 11.1 %, with most of the decline coming from Children / YA books (44.8 %).
The comments came after figures showed
eBooks sales fell for the first time since 2014 last year.
Not exact matches
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Fortune magazine seems to disagree with the «
ebook sales are
falling» claim, at least as of September of last year.
Ebook sales are not
falling, the print book is not roaring back into vogue and the trend of stories about their perilous future is just a passing one, to be forgotten as soon as the full story can be told.
Ebooks were 5 percent of
sales in the first quarter of 2010 (Book Industry Study Group) but 9 percent of consumer
sales in
Fall 2010 (Association of American Publishers).
In Word for Word: Don't buy the myth about
ebook slump for The Irish Times, he adamantly resists the idea that
ebook sales are
falling.
If it had been, there would have been no pieces about
falling ebook sales.
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.
While I am sure they counted verifiable
ebook sales I am still suspicious that their survey did not take into account the many publishing imprints that
fall under the umbrella of Kindle Direct Publishing and others who are not members of AAP and therefore paint an incomplete picture if there was a market shift.
Some of the
ebook decline we're seeing may be attributable to higher
ebook prices from traditional publishers, as well as rapidly
falling Nook
sales.
There is a bit of a debate going on right now about whether
eBook sales are
falling, or still rising, whether
eBooks are a good development for publishers, or a dead - end.
«Publishers are still trying to come to grips with the
ebook tornado that has swept through them in the past three years — they are seeing
falling sales of some kinds of print books and experience difficulty achieving profitable distribution of
ebooks.
First,
ebooks sold better in 2013 by numbers of total
sales, but actually resulted in less overall revenue than they have in the past; this may stem from the understanding of where
ebook pricing should
fall, and the fact that Amazon was able to discount
ebooks again after the stripping away of agency pricing following the DOJ lawsuit against the Big Five publishers.
When Amazon's
eBook sales, a la Kindle, exceeded its print book
sales that we authors and publishers love so well, the «book sky is
falling» dooms - dayers and sayers came out of the woodwork.
The next,
ebook sales are
falling.
(Note that my book is no longer for
sale because it's coming out in a revised / updated edition from Writer's Digest Books this
fall, and I have little doubt my net royalty on each
ebook copy of that edition will be less than what I used to get on the self - published edition — but I'm OK with that).
The publisher failed to disclose how much of their revenue was digital, which leads me to believe that
ebook sales are continuing to
fall, but the overall digital decline is not as pronounced because of audiobooks.
The agency pricing model does not work when it comes to
ebooks and the
fall of
sales should be clue to the publishers.
Over the course of the past five years
ebook sales continue to
fall.
So, it's fairer to say that trade published
ebook sales are
falling but indie
ebook sales are not.
Ebook sales were down 8 % in the young adult category,
falling to 4 million units sold.
The problem with the whole premise is that
ebook sales aren't
falling.
One of the big proponents of
falling ebook sales is primarily due to the price.
Ebook sales with ISBNs are certainly
falling, but indie books often don't have ISBNs.
He says people are
falling out of love with
ebook technology and moving back to print, where
sales are up.
The biggest gap for the month was
ebook sales, which
fell by $ 20.6 million to $ 120.2 million, down almost 15 percent...
Whether you decide that that's people's doing or the fact that
ebooks are now available, the result is the same, pbooks
sales fall because of
ebooks / people who read
ebooks.
E-reading platform Kobo may be a quiet company where retailing is concerned, given that many US consumers may not have even heard of the company that
falls just slightly behind Amazon and Barnes and Noble is
ebook and device
sales, but the company who has made more international headway than either of the two larger platforms combined has now increased its retail partnerships in France.
According PW,
sales of adult print books
fell 10.3 % in the first quarter of 2016, compared to the first period of 2015, and
ebook sales in the same category
fell 19 %.
A report in the Bookseller magazine found that the
sale of
eBooks fell for the UK's biggest publishers in 2015 by 2.4 %.
Postscript 2: «While adult
ebook sales had been pretty stable through most of the year, the trend that started in September (with
sales falling almost 8 percent) deepened in October, as adult
ebook sales of $ 83.6 million were down $ 23.7 million — or 22 percent — compared to the same month a year ago [as tabulated by their pool of approximately 1,200 publishers].»
Lately, we've been reading reports that
eBook sales are
falling.
Yes, since the major book publishers began to raise prices on
eBooks, making them far less attractive an alternative to print,
sales do appear to have
fallen... at those publishers.
Ebook sales are
falling, the Wall Street Journal reports, this after languishing
sales for the past several years.
For the past two years or so, I have been pointing out that while magazine digital edition circulation has been stagnant (or even declining), and
eBooks sales have been either
falling (if you believe the major publishers) or else growing more slowly (when you take into account Amazon and self - publishing), something else has also been going on: library systems are moving toward digital collections.
Regardless of where your
eBook sales numbers
fall, there are several strategies you can implement to break through the ceiling and start selling more
eBooks.
And they are a little bit more remarkable still when you consider that
sales have
fallen in the same period in which retailers have gained back the ability to discount
ebooks from all of the big agency lite publishers (who were always told that discounting would drive their
sales volume).