While the majority of
adult fiction sales came from ebooks in 2016, the concept of «digital fatigue» isn't going away anytime soon.
Fiction sales in the new self - publishing paradigm tend to build slowly and grow.
The median number of
short fiction sales was 1, meaning half of the authors sold more than this many, and half sold fewer.
In adult
fiction sales when the 50 Shades trilogy ended and now, this past year, with coloring books no longer being the rage.
Fiction sales made up 86 % of the revenue from ebook sales in 2015 (compared with only 32 % in physical books).
Adult nonfiction unit sales increased 2 % over the first half of 2016, while adult
fiction sales rose just under 1 %.
And last year, sales of books on electronic devices passed printed book sales in the highly important adult
fiction sales category.
And I'm making more money
through fiction sales, but I'm still not making a living if you know what I mean.
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Fiction Sales Copy that will help your sales.
Ebooks just reached a huge milestone - they passed print in adult
fiction sales for the first time evah!
Indie authors are earning nearly half the total author revenue from [leading] genre
fiction sales on Amazon.
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.
There's a corresponding decline in
overall fiction sales in the US since 2013, revealed by Nielsen's PubTrack Digital and BookScan data.
However, as a first - time ebook author with no other
fiction sales before this, your «fan base» is minimal and will stay that way for over a year, through Volume II.
According to the New York Times BookStats, e-book sales in 2012 represented 20 percent of publishers» revenue,
with fiction sales up 42 percent over the year before and non-fiction up 22 percent.
As the carefully culled sales data shows, of the
annual fiction sales of 423 million units, about 235 million of those titles were romance.
We are in a brand - new world here in 2018, a new world of
flat fiction sales and difficult discoverability.
I know myself and the ladies in my book club can't get enough of reading, so maybe
low fiction sales are more to do with what's being put out there?????
Source: This is from the same Nielsen presentation as the previous chart, only focused on
print fiction sales.
Carried out by digital publisher Canelo, the report analysed sales data from Nielsen BookScan and found that between 2007 and 2011,
hardback fiction sales slumped by # 10m.
51 % of my fiction book sales income for the last year has been from boxsets, rising to 77 % of my
Kobo fiction sales income.
Possible Data Quality Issue: The question was «How many
short fiction sales, if any, did you have before making your first professional novel sale?»
And overall, about 70 % of
US fiction sales are online as either audiobooks or ebooks.
Although exact figures on market share remain murky, Shatzkin says, «Digital accounts for more than half of
genre fiction sales, but when you talk about serious nonfiction, it's not more than 25 percent, and illustrated books, such as cookbooks are only 3 percent.»
As quoted by Mr. Porter Anderson in the new Digital Book World white paper, Mr. Guy states, «Adult
fiction sales in the US are nearly 71 percent digital now, and that is also the category where indie sales have made the deepest inroads: today, 30 percent of all US adult fiction book purchases are of titles self - published by indie authors.»
According to the «Top Ten Trends in Publishing Every Author Needs to Know in 2017,» «70 % of
adult fiction sales were digital» in 2016.
With only 5 % and 14 % of juvenile non-fiction and
fiction sales, respectively, coming from Indies, there's tremendous possibility for growth.
I have absolutely zero doubt that if I were to do this,
my fiction sales would easily double or triple within the first year.
Not only that, but looking at a scatterplot of the number of short
fiction sales and the year of the first novel sale, this appears to be busted going back at least 30 years.
I joined SFWA as an associate member in 2001, and upgraded to active as soon as I made that third short
fiction sale.
It maintained a rank of # 22 in
all fiction sales for eighteen hours.
We estimate that translated titles accounted for nearly 6 % of adult
fiction sales (excluding graphic novels) in 2016; sales were down on 2015 but still exceeded previous years, adding up to around 2m in units sold and # 18m in revenue.
For
the fiction sales, indie buyers purchase much more literary fiction and less genre fiction.
In print, non-fiction actually outsells fiction (327 million units vs 307 million units), and of
the fiction sales, romance only accounted for 27.5 million units.
Though when I tuned in, while the livestream was already in progress, I initially was confused, because instead of an awards ceremony, there was a bar diagram on the screen, breaking down genre
fiction sales, while a voice detailed the market share of indie writers in the various SFF subgenres.
I was reminded of reporting here just last month that UK author and writing - community leader Joanna Penn tells me she makes 95 percent of
her fiction sales and 70 percent of her non-fiction sales in the US.
moments was when Dean called blurbs «
fiction sales copy.»
Every two months we teach an entire six week online course on
Fiction Sales Copy.