Not exact matches
Publisher / line Year (or
projected year) of release Which book it is of yours / for that publisher (1st, 5th, etc.) Advance per book (if any) Standard royalty percentage (for regular print
sales AND for
ebook sales) Total earnout to date (INCLUDING advance) Title acronym with month / year of release (if known)
A workshop on libraries and
ebooks was held with Skip Dye, VP, Library and Academic
Sales, Random House; George Coe, President, Library & Education, Baker - Taylor; Barbara Genco, Manager, Special
Projects, Library Journal; Stephanie Anderson, Head of Readers Advisory, Darien Library; and Heather McCormack,... [Read more...]
A workshop on libraries and
ebooks was held with Skip Dye, VP, Library and Academic
Sales, Random House; George Coe, President, Library & Education, Baker - Taylor; Barbara Genco, Manager, Special
Projects, Library Journal; Stephanie Anderson, Head of Readers Advisory, Darien Library; and Heather McCormack, Collection Development Manager, 3M Cloud Library.
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.»
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.
All of these features make fixed - layout
ebooks ideal for such
projects as children's books, cookbooks, travel journals, photography and design books, game guides, and any other
project where page presentation is important to reader experience and
sales.
But has the process of building and marketing the Harry Potter
ebooks been unfulfilling enough that Rowling doesn't intend to be responsible for the
sale of
ebooks of this next
project?
With the creation of
Project Gutenberg in the 1970s, digital reading has actually been a viable publishing option for nearly forty years, yet only in 2010 did the industry take off in the current state of
ebook sales.
In its annual «Entertainment & Media Outlook,» set to be released Wednesday, PwC (PricewaterhouseCoopers) estimates that trade (consumer, not educational or academic)
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.
But I have been able to set security options on my
ebook in PDF format (which is not attached to a print
project, I used the
ebook prokect) and offer it for
sale, so this already seems to be an option.
For all the exasperation some of us may feel at our in ability to really know whether
ebook sales are «flattening,» still growing, or sliding backward, what may be more important at the stage in which Wednesday's debate took place are the points being
projected in curious parallel:
As with previous reports, the data takes a hard look at
projected sales and author earnings by pulling data for over 120,000
ebooks off Amazon's product pages.
The responses serve as excellent data to refer to when planning your
eBook content and
sales pages, and it will make your individual client
projects themselves run more smoothly.
As with our previous reports, we are looking at
projected sales and author earnings by pulling data for over 120,000
ebooks off Amazon's product pages.
Ignoring the AAP / BISG BookStats - reported 512.7 million
ebooks with ISBNs sold in the U.S. in 2013, Nielsen instead
projects 205 million U.S.
ebook sales for 2013, based on analysis by their recently - acquired PubTrack Digital subsidiary.
Their
project analyses
sales data that is «scraped» electronically from the
sales pages of Amazon
ebook bestsellers (200,000 titles for the most recent report in May).