Penn confirms that she still sees 95 percent of
her fiction ebook sales and some 70 percent of her nonfiction ebook sales made in the US.
By Turgay Birand 2014-07-08T19:10:54 +00:00 July 10th, 2014 Categories: Uncategorized Tags:
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Not exact matches
When you consider that most of these
ebook sales would be for non-illustrated adult
fiction and non-
fiction — well under half of the $ 2.91 B — it's quite likely that the
ebook share is closer to a third.
Also, it is the
sale of
ebook in the
fiction segment that is expected to reach 59.7 % in 2014 over all other segments.
And overall, about 70 % of US
fiction sales are online as either audiobooks or
ebooks.
In an AuthorEarnings.com report from Hugh Howey, a data - scraping survey of a snapshot of the top 50,000 bestselling
ebooks on Amazon indicates that genre
fiction titles accounted for 69 percent of those daily unit
sales.
Sales of adult
fiction ebooks increased by 13 %, but children's digital editions declined by 30 %.
According to the survey,
ebooks sales in the adult trade
fiction category increased in 2013 over 2012, up 3.8 % to a yearly total of $ 1.3... [Read more...]
According to the survey,
ebooks sales in the adult trade
fiction category increased in 2013 over 2012, up 3.8 % to a yearly total of $ 1.3 billion.
Hardcover
sales in adult trade
fiction and non-
fiction combined increased to a total of $ 1.5 billion in 2013;
ebooks in
fiction - only sold almost as much as hardcover for both
fiction and non-
fiction for adults — despite the typically lower price point of
ebooks compared to hardcover and paperback — a fact that speaks to the need to revamp the strategy by which publishers perceive digital - first and
ebook - only.
Ebooks work really well for
fiction but there has been a decline in the
sales of non-
fiction in
ebook format.
Romance and other genre
fiction tend to dominate
ebook sales and so must have more «future».
While the majority of adult
fiction sales came from
ebooks in 2016, the concept of «digital fatigue» isn't going away anytime soon.
Consumer
ebook sales have certainly stalled and most notably in
fiction.
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.
But if you look at the
sales reports for
fiction ebooks, it appears they've been embraced by a rapidly growing
fiction market too.
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.
Fiction sales made up 86 % of the revenue from
ebook sales in 2015 (compared with only 32 % in physical books).
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.
The strongest growth in publishing right now would be Adult
Fiction ebooks, capturing 30 % of total net publisher dollar
sales.
Within the
fiction genre, it was no surprise that the highest percentage of
ebook sales fell under the literary / classics category.
The compilation of
sales numbers to develop the bestsellers lists will be in four distinct categories: a combined number for digital and print
sales of
fiction, digital and print of non-
fiction,
ebook - only
fiction, and
ebook - only non-
fiction.
According to Publishers Weekly «Adult
fiction remained the most popular
ebook category — 44 % of
sales in the category were in the digital format — but
ebook sales in the segment dropped 14 % from 2016, to 108 million units.
I chose to self pub my non
fiction title in both Kindle
ebook and paperback, and have been surprised to find only 20 % of my
sales are
ebook.
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.
The vast majority of traditionally published and hybrid
fiction authors see a very different mix — one that skews much more heavily toward
ebooks and online print
sales.
[Nielsen Book's] quiet PubTrack Digital service — the only source of real, granular
ebook sales data, based on invoices for
ebook sales from participating publishers — shows adult
fiction still accounting for 65 percent of all
ebook sales.
eBook sales have been on the rise thanks to growing segments like Young Adult
Fiction, where we have seen growth by over 233 %.
Sales nearly doubled from 2010 to 2011, and
ebooks now account for over 30 % of all Trade -
Fiction!
«
eBooks are coexisting with print books, as opposed to taking over... digital
sales of
fiction and non
fiction appear to be slowing as readers increasingly want to consume books in a variety of ways.»
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Ebooks are now THE dominant
sales format for adult
fiction; bigger than hardcover, bigger than paperback.
The thinking then was that every winner has to have a loser, and with a winner this big (British
sales for consumer
eBook fiction and non-
fiction were up 366 % in 2011!!)
According to Romance Writers of America, 39 percent of romantic
fiction is published in
eBook format, and romantic
fiction accounts for more than $ 1 billion in
sales and 13 percent of all adult
fiction.
The remaining sliver, meanwhile, goes to juvenile
eBook sales —
fiction and nonfiction, both.
Fiction represents a large chunk of
ebook sales and those books generally don't benefit from an index.
The overall
eBook fiction sales went ballistic over the moon north of # 172 million.
I'm more familiar with the
ebook market, and
fiction trounces nonfiction in
sales.
On that criteria alone, probably not, especially since
eBooks are now the dominant format in adult
fiction accounting for 40 % of
sales.
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eBooks exploded in the adult
fiction category last year, accounting for 30 percent of net publisher
sales in 2011 - up from 13 percent the year before.
Ebooks are already over half of all
fiction sales.
Takeaway:
Ebooks have affected the print
sales market for all
fiction categories.
He starts by saying that «
sales of
ebooks for
fiction more often than not top 50 % of the total
sales,» and then says of total book
sales that «only about 35 % of it is selling as print in stores (because 25 - 30 percent of the print
sale is online).»
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:
-LSB-...] Friedman noted recently that 70 % of
fiction is sold in
ebook format and about 50 % of all domestic book
sales....
While Nielsen found that 50 % of all
fiction sales were in
ebook format, only 4 % of children's
fiction was digital.
Self - published and micro-published authors, particularly those writing genre
fiction, were pricing their
eBooks much lower and claiming an increasing share of the market, particularly through Amazon, while large publishers were increasing
eBook prices in a way that reduced
eBook sales.
Today, digital formats (i.e.
ebooks and audio) make up the majority of all US
fiction sales of any format — more than 50 % of traditionally - published
fiction unit
sales are already digital.