Indie authors are earning nearly half the total author revenue from [leading] genre
fiction sales on Amazon.
Indie authors are earning nearly half the total author revenue from genre
fiction sales on Amazon.
Not exact matches
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On sale May 28, 2013 Philipp Meyer made his fiction debut with a bang: His very first novel, American Rust, was one of the most talked - about literary releases of 2009, earning him a place on The New Yorker «s Best 20 Writers Under 40 lis
On sale May 28, 2013 Philipp Meyer made his
fiction debut with a bang: His very first novel, American Rust, was one of the most talked - about literary releases of 2009, earning him a place
on The New Yorker «s Best 20 Writers Under 40 lis
on The New Yorker «s Best 20 Writers Under 40 list.
Christian
Fiction is
on the decline, as overall book
sales have plummeted 15 % from 2013 to 2014.
Once per month the newspaper will combine physical and digital audio and primarily focus
on the top 15
fiction and top 15 nonfiction audiobook lists and it will be based
on sales from the previous month.
In a fall filled with
fiction heavyweights (including the new J.K. Rowling, which also goes
on sale today), Forgiven holds its own, keeping the reader glued to the pages as the darkly humorous and oddly hopeful tale of Harold Silver unfolds.
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.)
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.
So you need a marketing strategy that will first attract people (to your web site or to the
sales page
on Amazon or some other retailer); then you need to engage those same people long enough to figure out whether they like your kind of
fiction; finally, you need to persuade those same people to buy RIGHT NOW.
It looks like the site includes more than just Christian
fiction too, with additional information about cookbooks
on sale and the like.
The difference is due to a different mix of
fiction and non-
fiction book
sales on the sites.
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).
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.
The big
sale on Dark Horse Digital this weekend is science
fiction comics, with issues of Aliens, Battlestar Galactica, The Bionic Man, and more for 99 cents each.
A novel that was a finalist for this year's Pulitzer Prize in
fiction leads the list of new paperbacks
on sale today:
Here's who this promotion might not work for: writers of long, literary
fiction who depend
on sales to make up for some of the painstaking work that went into their novel.
one of the first science
fiction paperbacks I ever bought, at a library
sale on Rockcliffe Airbase in 1978.
Bestseller lists are focused
on fiction and non-
fiction new releases, and high - profile bestseller lists such as the Globe & Mail and the New York Times compile their lists with weekly
sales data from BookNet Canada and NPD BookScan (formerly Nielsen Bookscan) but then further curate them.
Ken:
On the one hand, having a good backlist help your
sales so if you're committed to one particular genre like in science
fiction, when I released a new series in the fall, it did really well and those readers read my other science
fiction series so it had that kind of cascade effect.
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.
Reader reviews
on Amazon created so much buzz that
sales ballooned and the book climbed to # 1
on Amazon's bestselling science
fiction list.
Book: Epic One — Episode One Marketing: eBookFling email, post
on Digital 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.
Keven J Anderson, a seminal science
fiction writer, said that when he spends the money to visit different cities
on promotional tours, he can immediately see if the money was well spent, what with the
sales speaking for themselves.
Gather «round, literary
fiction fans: Zadie Smith's latest novel, Swing Time, will be
on sale in the US and the UK
on November 15.
Once per month the newspaper will combine physical and digital audio and primarily focus
on the top 15
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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.
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.
In honor of the Kindle's 10 - year anniversary, Amazon released new data from Amazon Charts, sharing some of the most popular Kindle books of all time, based
on Kindle
sales in both
fiction and nonfiction.
Every two months we teach an entire six week online course
on Fiction Sales Copy.
Any data
on the breakdown for
fiction vs nonfiction titles published via Smashwords to put the
sales percentages into perspective?
[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.
«Observations
on a Clock,» my first
sale to Asimov's Science
Fiction Magazine, hit the book stores a little over a week ago.
The Spanners Series first three Volumes of utopian science -
fiction / romance by Sally Ember, Ed.D. are
on sale NOW!
eBook
sales have been
on the rise thanks to growing segments like Young Adult
Fiction, where we have seen growth by over 233 %.
If you're a genre writer there are even more resources — for instance, Locus magazine reports
on US science
fiction / fantasy / horror
sales.
While a site for
fiction is built around increasing book
sales, a site
on a non-
fiction topic is largely designed around profiting from a reader of your books, far beyond the initial
sale of the book.
-- Success or failure
on such a plan will depend
on your ability to make
sales traditionally with short
fiction.
Last May I gave away 37,000 and got 8000
sales, and in mid-June, I gave away 30000 (didn't get good advertising) and sold 600, but this time,
on Friday and Saturday, I gave away 14,000, got to 24 in FREE and # 1 in Literary
Fiction and # 5 in Mystery, and the next dead, NADA.
St. Patrick's Day
Sale — 15 % off
on Religion, History and
Fiction titles with code stpatrickdaycp.
It doesn't break down
sales based
on genre, or
fiction v. non-
fiction.
Paula Hawkins» novel The Girl
on the Train has broken UK
sales records this week, claiming its 20th consecutive week atop the hardback
fiction bestseller lists.
Her first novel - women's commercial
fiction with a side serving of satire - has a big «FOR
SALE» sign
on it and the second is making the arduous journey from her brain to her Mac.
The fact is I'm an avid reader of almost every
fiction genre and I buy what I buy even if they aren't
on sale or free.
Right now — much to Simon and Schuster's chagrin, one has to imagine — the first two of what are sure to be many Wool - related fan
fiction stories are available for
sale on Amazon.
Bookouture's
sales growth in 2015 was exceptional — but the
sales level sustainable — built
on high quality commercial
fiction, a fusion of traditional publisher expertise, smart digital marketing and good old - fashioned attention to detail.