51 % of
my fiction book sales income for the last year has been from boxsets, rising to 77 % of my Kobo fiction sales income.
It's generally accepted that Amazon owns an ebook market share of about two - thirds as well as a market share of about 85 % of online print book sales, so here's where Shatzkin's data points lead for
fiction book sales:
The news comes just as the Publishers Association's Sales Monitor reported that the total value of digital
fiction book sales grew tremendously in the UK between January - June 2012 — up by 188 % by value from the same period in 2011.
Not exact matches
Authors and publishers would also testify to her golden touch, Of the 46 works of
fiction picked by Oprah for her
book club (which she recently closed down),
sales averaged 1.5 million in 1999, the club's biggest year.
And all the big e-book sellers write
fiction and have published multiple
books, whereas I have just one non-
fiction title for
sale — so you'll be able to catch up quick!
Marketing Power of Digital — Print
books are expected to continue a comeback in 2017, but for anyone publishing
fiction, e-
books drive
sales and are easier to promote since social media and reader websites offer more economical ways to promote.
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Christian
Fiction is on the decline, as overall
book sales have plummeted 15 % from 2013 to 2014.
Last year print
sales of consumer
book titles —
fiction, non-
fiction and children's titles — rose almost 9 % and generated # 1.55 bn.
The direct
sales are skewing the results and shouldn't be used here to complete the analysis since most (
fiction) authors wont have the direct
sales channels that you employ (e.g. the how - to non-
fiction books that you sell and the sending of all of your authors on this email list to buy other products and get kick - back affiliate commission on it.)
How to Write a Sizzling Synopsis: A Step - by - Step System for Enticing New Readers, Selling More
Fiction, and Making Your
Books Sound Good is the
book that pulls back the covers and show the moving parts of a killer synopsis that drives
sales.
If juvenile
books can bring the numbers closer to the adult
fiction market, indie juvenile
sales will boom.
For traditionally published
books only: 41 % of children's non-
fiction book sales are online 40 % of children's
fiction books are online.
Just use the above math to figure how many
books you need to sell depending on the price of your
book to make back your expenses at the base rate of 25
sales per month for novels and 5
sales for short
fiction and collections.
But so many who write about
books only consider the
fiction category and total
book sales.
«The impact will be felt by trade
fiction and non-
fiction to begin with, but I don't foresee that
sale of academic
books will be affected in the near future.»
The difference is due to a different mix of
fiction and non-
fiction book sales on the sites.
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In the first five months of 2015, publishers» revenues from e-
books sales fell 10 per cent to $ 610.8 million, according to the Association of American Publishers, compared to a 2.3 per cent drop in print
book sales in the
fiction, non
fiction and religious categories (that the industry calls trade
books.)
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Now that online
book retailers are generating 50 % or more of
fiction sales and 20 % or more of nonfiction
sales, having reviews posted on the page for your
book on those sites has become very important.
Whether at your blog or for an online retailer, remember that writing
sales copy is not writing a
book, so don't rely solely on your
fiction - writing skills.
The best cover is the cover that sells the most
books (unless you're writing literary
fiction or you have a career goal that doesn't depend on
book sales).
For example, Contemporary
Fiction and Romance (subcategories of Literature &
Fiction) feature
books with the lowest
sales ranks and highest
sales numbers, so they are the bestselling categories in the German Amazon store.
Ahead of the seminar, Meynink said: & ldquo; There has been over-performance in the growth in e-book sales in the romance and science fiction categories, when compared to the market share of print book sales, and this correlates with a fall in print book sales in those sectors.
For example, the e-
book market share of the science
fiction and fantasy sector globally for the 10 weeks since June was 10 %, more than treble the genre & rsquo; s market share of print
book sales.
Fulfilling one of the objectives of the prize — to encourage the widest possible readership for the best in literary
fiction — the winner and the shortlisted authors now enjoy a dramatic increase in
book sales worldwide.
Juvenile
Fiction was the best - selling genre in Canada in 2015, with a 29.6 % share of total unit
sales through traditional
book retailers, representing 20 % of the value of the total
book market.
Whatever your needs and dreams, this
book, 124 Powerful
Fiction Writing Tips: Win Readers And Fans, And Increase Your
Sales Today, will help.
Examples include the signing and
book sale at the Rocky Mountain
Fiction Writers Colorado Gold Writers Conference in Denver in September for the authors of the RMFW anthology Found; the
book sale and signing opportunities at the Northern Colorado Writers Conference May 5 - 6 for the poets in Sunrise Summits.
The largest shares of total
sales were reported in the nonfiction (43.5 per cent),
fiction (26.5 per cent) and children's
books (19 per cent) segments.
The growth in e-book sales in genres such as romance and science - fiction is leading to a cannibalisation in sales of printed books, according to Nielsen BookScan data.
All the rest — the literary
fiction, the cookbooks, the self - help
books, the bread and butter midlist
books that now make up 80 percent of every publisher's list — those
books they'd cherry pick from self - published authors who'd already tested the market and had the credible
sales to prove it.
50 % Ebook
sales and 95 % of this is
fiction, skewed towards the second half of the year when Prophecy came out and I had 2
books at $ 2.99.
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Now they account for nearly half of all
book sales, whether
fiction, non-
fiction, poetry, picture
books, or textbook, and ebooks of all genres are gaining in popularity month after month.
Reader reviews on Amazon created so much buzz that
sales ballooned and the
book climbed to # 1 on Amazon's bestselling science
fiction list.
Fiction sales made up 86 % of the revenue from ebook
sales in 2015 (compared with only 32 % in physical
books).
In Brazil, print
book sales are down 3.5 % for the last 12 months, with declines in the top 2 genres:
Fiction and Adult Non-
Fiction.
Although the results appear to favor
books of science
fiction, fantasy and faeries, it appears that podiobooks can help
book sales after all.
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Book World for launch of SharedEpic.com Cost: (List Price $ 11.95, I got a reasonable discount) Total Free Downloads: 2179 Top Amazon
Sales Rank: # 88 top free, # 2 Science Fiction, # 2 Adventure Resulting Sales (trailing week): 17 sales, 2 bor
Sales Rank: # 88 top free, # 2 Science
Fiction, # 2 Adventure Resulting
Sales (trailing week): 17 sales, 2 bor
Sales (trailing week): 17
sales, 2 bor
sales, 2 borrows.
With the release of JK Rowling's first
fiction title for adult and non-wizarding fans, The Casual Vacancy, just days away, early figures on the
book's
sales show that it has already taken in one million purchases in pre-orders, causing some to speculate that it will quite possibly reach the number one spot on several bestseller lists on its first day of
sales this Thursday.
Even though the authors and the publishers will still make their same commission and even though the supremely discounted price on ebooks has translated into tens of thousands of
book sales for authors and
fiction's digital
sales are up by 188 % for the first half of the year, authors are speaking out against having their ebooks discounted at the retailers» cost.
While studies from groups like the
Book Industry Study Group had once shown that teenagers were the readers least likely to adopt digital reading, the rise in digital
sales in young adult
fiction shows that more are taking to reading on their devices.
Their research does a good job at tracking
sales from all adult
fiction, non-
fiction, and kids
books.
It will feature both
Fiction and Non-
Fiction book titles and will be overseen by a third party company that has a track record in monitoring
book sales.
Romance buyers are buying ebooks to a greater extent when compared with other major
fiction subgenres and ebook
sales of romance
books have proportionally doubled in one year, from 22 % in Q1 2011 to 44 % in Q1 2012.
Whether a non-
fiction print edition from a major publishing house or a genre
fiction ebook from a self - published author, contracting the services of a group like MethodApps can easily provide the extra push needed to market a
book, especially if the app is sold or distributed in the same
sales channel as the
book and can therefore be bought at the time of the
book purchase.
We can incorporate those average prices into our calculation to arrive at the ratio of traditionally - published e-
book to print
book unit
sales for
fiction and non-
fiction: