Not exact matches
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.
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.
As mentioned in other posts, I didn't market my
fiction series at all until I had three published novels in place — and trust me, my book
sales for the
fiction series were nil
before this.
As a result, overall
sales of
fiction declined in the 1990's
before Amazon existed and long
before it launched the Kindle.
One famous piece of ultra-short
fiction (
before it was called flash
fiction) comes from Hemingway: «For
sale, baby shoes, never worn.»