Sentences with phrase «ebook sales numbers»

For Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Apple, and Google, releasing their ebook sales numbers would make poor business sense indeed.

A sheer rock face of competition, it's growing upward at speeds we can't even measure because the biggest retailers don't share their ebook sales numbers.

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.

The fact that those Nielsen ebook sales numbers come from only 30 publishers, however, doesn't stop Nielsen from claiming that their PubTrack numbers represent «85 % of the nation's eBook sales» and drawing broad and unsubstantiated conclusions from them.»

The truth is, authors who self — distribute their eBooks have a far better view of their eBook sales numbers than a traditionally published author.

What's not mentioned: ebook sales numbers are a fraction of paperback sales numbers.

Not exact matches

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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.

One source of numbers for online book sales, including for indie ebooks, is the website Author Earnings.

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.

It's a numbers game: like it or not, independent publishing already gives almost half the ebook unit sales of the market and seems unstoppable.

I can spend a lot of time quoting figures on eBook and print sales (and analysing how efficacious they are, given the erratic quality of published numbers), but it isn't necessary for this discussion.

However, ebook sales overall are still robust when you take into account the 30 % of ebooks that do not have an ISBN number, and therefore do not show up in any of the traditional measures of ebook sales, as clearly documented on authorearnings.com.

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.

Authors typically are paid a percentage (which can be up to 40 %) of the sale from their ebook or agree to a flat fee from the publisher which will remain fixed regardless of the number of books sold.

It seeks answers to a wide range of questions, including indie author income, number and length of books published, formats (ebook, print, audio or foreign), best marketing tools, retailers that result in highest sales, and the authors» goals with regard to indie publishing.

As August winds to a close, there are a number of ebook readers and related items on sale, so I decided to put them all together in one long list instead of doing separate posts for each offer.

No matter what kind of book you're publishing, ebook sales will probably be your biggest numbers.

According to our current sales numbers, Amazon contributes to 45 % of the global ebook sales, while 55 % happens elsewhere.

With Black Friday and Cyber Monday quickly approaching, there are already a number of sales and deals going on for ebook readers and tablets.

It is more likely that the attorneys general now have a better idea about the number of ebook sales that are covered by this settlement.

As such, eBook sales in October were less than 1.3 % of overall book sales (although there is no doubt some finagling to be done to balance retail and wholesale numbers).

Two reasons for this: one, best practice for ISBNs is that if I really wanted to sell the PDF, I'd need another one, and two, PDF sales have declined sharply in ebook markets in general since the sales numbers haven't supported them.

My sales numbers for August were pretty thin on the ground, so as of last night I lowered the ebook price for Faerie Blood on the various sites where it's being sold.

Some sources say BookScan does not report on 75 to 85 % of sales but I'd bet that number is actually lower (in terms of what BookScan reports on) because if you consider the lists of technical, scholarly, law - related books, the Christian market, the millions of self - published titles each year, and all of the eBooks that use Amazon's ASIN system, I'd wager a guess that BookScan gets maybe 65 - 70 % of the market.

If you've spent much time studying eBook sales on Amazon you know that the sales rank of your eBook (or print book, or DVD, or CD) is a number that constantly changes, often greatly.

The second number is the increase in ebook sales.

By insisting on blindly continuing to spend copious amounts of money on print runs, only to have them end up as pulp after they have been remaindered by the dwindling number of book shops through low sales, over the far cheaper and fastest growing area within literature today — the eBook, does you no favours whatsoever.

Another question I find important to ask: Would it be better to publish with Amazon DP and opt - out Kindle in my Smashwords dashboard, or I would get the same number of sales if I distribute my ebook in Kindle Store via Smashwords?

I was half expecting my numbers to go down from December since everyone said the holiday rush is what was behind the big ebook sales.

Furthermore, publishers can set the price on ebook sales, as well as charge a «lending fee» and determine the number of days that the book is in the user's hands.

HarperCollins Sees Massive Growth on eBooks — Harper Collins announced that 20 % of sales currently come from ebook titles, and with the current rate of growth that number should rise within the next year and a half.

But after the holiday e-reader gift giving when the industry saw an expected spike in ebook sales to go with those new devices, USA Today's list contained an unprecedented number of ebooks that were actually faring better than their print editions in the marketplace.

In 2013, sales growth for eBooks slowed to single digits, and the new numbers from Nielsen suggest the leveling off was no anomaly.

A number of authors, including JA Konrath and Hugh Howey, made international headlines this week with their open discussions of what is wrong with ebook pricing and sales data.

This new offering has a Buy It Now feature which allows patrons to click to purchase a book that they have enjoyed reading on a handheld device, a feature that encourages the already high number of book sales that occur after an ebook has been borrowed.

Adlibris has been selling eBooks for a number of years and doubled sales in 2012, where it made $ 2.2 million dollars.

Well Amazon ranks number one for ebook sales, while Barnes and Noble rolls in at number two.

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.

Tempelis spoke on the recent collaboration between digital media collection OverDrive and Sourcebooks, a project which sought to provide definitive numbers to the industry about how ebook lending impacts future sales of the title and of the author's and publisher's other books.

Kobo has been running one of these programs for a number of years, allowing people to earn a 5 % commission for ebook sales, while devices and accessories generate 10 %.

It is about a worry that her husband's legacy will be undermined if sales are split between ebooks and hardcovers, preventing the last book of the Wheel of Time from hitting number one on either list.

The third - quarter numbers for 2015 show that so far this year, ebooks (not including school and reference books) have a 5.3 % share of book sales in Germany.

But when I went back and counted the numbers for just The Spaceship Next Door, I discovered something interesting: my audio sales, by unit, were nearly equal to my ebook sales.

Continue reading «eBook Sales: It's all about the Numbers.

Naturally, it means having more emphasis on ebooks and the Author Earning report shows this trend with their higher number of ebook sales.

We are left, as I never tire of quoting The Bookseller's Philip Jones as writing, studying our own industry «by candlelight» because the overwhelming number of ebook sales transactions — those conducted by the major online retailers, Amazon chief among them — are withheld from the public as proprietary information.

Amazon, who manufacture the Kindle reader, say that the retail website has sold 114 ebooks for every 100 printed books, and that this number includes the sales of harcover and paperback books where no Kindle edition is available.

In our walkup to The FutureBook digital publishing community's #FutureChat, I had written that the analysis, while declaring the staggered International Standard Book Number (ISBN) a goner, had failed to call out Amazon for not reporting its majority share of ebook sales (estimated at 67 percent in the US market) so that the industry - at - large can «see» and quantify itself.

There is a trend developing that when an ebook has achieved a significant number of sales the mainstream houses will seek out the ebook author and put a pbook publishing deal on the table.