Not exact matches
Centralized reporting of direct - from - author
sales is tougher to come by, but by all anecdotal measures the independent market has taken off, notably in the also - still - large
category of adult
fiction.
Self - published literary
fiction doesn't sell as well as genre
fiction does: This
category makes up only 2 % of all Amazon e-book
sales.
For juvenile
fiction categories, online
sales.
But so many who write about books only consider the
fiction category and total book
sales.
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.)
Adult
fiction had the highest percentage of e-book
sales, with 51 % of
sales purchased in the
category bought in digital format.
One of the reasons why
sales are down is due to no big blockbuster titles in the juvenile nonfiction
category, which declined 8 % compared to a year ago, while
sales of adult
fiction were off 12 % in the week.
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.
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.
The Guardian released a study last year that gave the top 5
fiction categories by
sales dollars as follows:
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.
Sales of
fiction, traditionally the strongest
category on the general market, dropped by 6.7 % in 2014, the reason for this being the absence of major bestselling titles.
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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.»
Ahead of the seminar, Meynink said: «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.»
This illustrates a key point about soliciting testimonials you'll use on your cover, website, and retail site
sales page: You want to ask people with a connection to your book's topic or
category, whether it's nonfiction or
fiction.
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.
Takeaway: Ebooks have affected the print
sales market for all
fiction categories.
That helped a bit with
sales on those other platforms, but not as much as I would have expected (I should note that my pen name writes science
fiction romance, and Bookbub doesn't have such a
category — they put the book in paranormal romance, which I don't believe was a good fit).
As you do not generally cite the figures for Science
Fiction > Galactic Empire vs Science
Fiction > Space Exploration there is no need to go into the sub-categories as everything there is already in the top level Science
Fiction category and you have the ability to exclude results by a rank judged to mean less than one
sale per day.
It can be a little misleading if you mistakenly interpret the above as the median earnings mix for individual authors, because the majority of those print
sales for both traditionally published authors and indie authors are nonfiction — generally written by a different set of authors than their
fiction counterparts who make the majority of ebook and audiobook earnings in each
category.
These developments are progressive and exciting, and only time will tell if advances in ebooks will cause Poetry print
sales to go the way of
Fiction categories — again, this wouldn't mean that people aren't reading; it would just mean they were reading differently.
Nielsen offers specific figures on how ebook
sales have affected print
sales in adult
fiction, adult nonfiction, and juvenile
categories.
If we only look at the English language books, the best
category is
fiction, accounting for 34 % of total
sales in the area.
More than half of all
sales are from Romance
Fiction with over a dozen different
categories within.
«During the promotion my book rose to the number 1 position in two
fiction categories and soared into the top 50 overall...
sales that were generated after the promotion ended increased significantly.»
Literary
Fiction, which is not a lucrative
category overall in publishing, makes up only 2 % of Amazon ebook unit
sales and 3 % of Amazon ebook dollar
sales.