Actually, book sales have risen strongly since 2008, not coincidentally since
ebooks came on the scene.
Not exact matches
When David Baldacci's Deliver Us From Evil hits stores
on April 20, the
eBook will
come with behind - the -
scenes features in the same vein as a DVD.
A couple of years ago, Amanda Hocking
came on the self - publishing
scene with several YA
ebooks priced at 99 cents (for book 1s) and $ 2.99 (for subsequent books) and had legendary sales that led to a legendary two - million - dollar traditional publishing deal.
He's sold over 130,000
ebooks since
coming on the
scene a few years ago, and he's collaborated with more authors than Lindsay can count without taking off her shoes.
Just two years ago The First World
eBook Fair
came on the
scene with about 1/3 million books, doubled to 2/3 million in 2007, and now over one million.
«Since
coming on the independent publishing
scene in 2010, I've dealt primarily with Amazon.com as my
ebook distributor,» says Baylee.
Once Apple's iPad and its iBook store
came on the
scene, it presented an alternative pricing model — and alternative prices of $ 12 or $ 15 for an
ebook.
If you think how quickly the Kindle
came on the
scene, attracted loyalists, established its own ecosystem, completely dominated the market for
ebooks, and now could conceivably fade away just as quickly.
In the case of
ebooks, the Peak of Inflated Expectations in 2014 was out of all proportion to the genuine consumer demand that existed before the Kindle
came on the
scene.