For paperback sales we rely almost entirely from bookshops — the lack of paperback sales from Amazon is not helped by the fact Amazon say in bold that my book is out of stock, when there are in fact copies in their warehouse.
In 2010, we saw e-book royalties for self - published authors (through Amazon, B&N, Apple, and most other outlets) increase from 35 % to 70 %, which compares quite favorably to the 8 % authors used to get from publishers
for paperback sales, or the 17.5 % (net) they normally pay for e-book royalties.
The same was the case with CreateSpace,
for my paperback sales.
In raw dollar amounts, that's more than three times what I'd get from a mainstream publisher
for each paperback sale.
Not exact matches
Make your shop known
for something - a specific category (or two) of books, having some first editions
for sale, all
paperbacks a dollar and all hardcovers two bucks, and / or a swap program.
Pyramid editor Leslie Schwartz indicates one reason
for the vast volume of religious
paperback sales: «Rather than [in] a specifically religious bookstore, these books are sold in very open, public places.
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Formatting your book
for paperback is just as easy as the process
for Kindle formatting and will double your monthly
sales.
The definition right from their website is, «is a self - service, do - it - yourself online tool that allows you to upload your ready -
for - printing PDF book files and make your trade
paperback book (s) available
for sale online.»
For example, if you use CreateSpace to produce your
paperback version, its share consists of a
sales channel percentage, a fixed charge, and a per - page charge.
The value you use
for total revenue would have to take account of the loses in hardcover (and
paperback)
sales as well.
According to a recent survey by Nielsen Books, eBook
sales made up 23 % of unit
sales for the first six months of 2014, while hardcover's accounted
for 25 % and
paperbacks 42 %.
Good news
for Weiner fans: Best Friends Forever comes out in
paperback in May, and Weiner's latest novel, Fly Away Home goes on
sale in July.
The
sales price
for the
paperback book is $ 13.99.
Four years after that ereader went to market, digtal books topped
sales of
paperbacks for the first time — and nobody was taking notes in their ebook margins.
Making it even more difficult, I use print - on - demand (POD) printers
for my
paperback and hardcover books, which means that I don't have a stock of books available
for sale.
If
sales pick up, and you think there's demand
for it, use the proceeds to pay
for more expensive versions like a
paperback, where you have to pay
for design and print distribution too.
I do not count on my ebook
sales for my main income from children's books, My
paperbacks and hardcover do better.
I don't make a lot off my
paperback sales, but I do pull in a couple hundred bucks a month from them
for no extra work or expense.
Early in the week we heard the Borders chain has finally shuffled off its mortal coil, and on Thursday, Publishers Lunch reported book
sales suffered another huge monthly drop — especially
for adult hardcover and mass market
paperbacks.
There's a
sale currently running on comiXology and
for Amazon's Kindle
for Marvel trade
paperbacks.
In fact, it is possible to publish your book in
paperback and have it available
for sale on hundreds of websites entirely without spending a dime.
That one book usually counts
for half to a third of monthly
sales as an e-book and
paperback.
According to Nielsen's survey, ebooks constituted only 23 percent of unit
sales for the first six months of the year, while hardcovers made up 25 percent and
paperback 42 percent of
sales.
Figures are not yet available
for mass market
paperbacks, but their
sales are expected to fall.
Since book
sales for hardcovers and
paperbacks still outsell eBooks, it's important not to put all of your eggs in one basket.
Last year, net
sales revenue
for paperbacks amounted to $ 335 million.
At this point in time (since most e-books can't be resold), e-reader owners miss out on things like garage
sales, rummage
sales and library
sales; places where a box of
paperbacks could be picked up
for ten bucks.
Incidentally, hardcovers make great shelfies, and we think you should watch
for a continued rise in hardcover book
sales alongside
paperbacks and ebooks.
Even allowing
for the effects of Border's, across all three formats — ebooks, hardcover print, and
paperback print — children's and YA books just seemed to have had a far better year
for sales in 2012.
A novel that was a finalist
for this year's Pulitzer Prize in fiction leads the list of new
paperbacks on
sale today:
A few still pick through the bargain bin at Costco
for paperbacks, or do so at garage
sales, but shelf space in the home is at a premium.
There have many years where they account
for 43 % of all mass market
paperback and trade
sales.
There's a severe shortage of streamlined pathways
for self - published authors to get their books into libraries, with many authors resorting to simply donating copies of their books and hoping they get put on the shelves (as opposed to being sold in the 25 - cent
paperback sale).
The New York Times just put out an article citing the decline of eBook
sales as the simple fact that it had climbed too high
for too long and it is stabilizing along with the fact that traditional
paperbacks are growing in popularity.
According to a new report by Nielsen
paperback sales accounted
for 42 % of all book
sales, followed by hardcovers with 25 % and finally eBooks with a paltry 23 %.
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.
I've said
for a long time that everything flows from ebook
sales — audiobook
sales,
paperback sales, foreign rights deals, agents, print - only deals — all the «markers of success» that authors often seek.
The
sale is
for ebooks only, but De Novo is available in
paperback as well, from Amazon.
Since Amazon adjusts prices at their whim, I just discovered today that the
paperback edition of my first novel, Testing the Prisoner, is on
sale for $ 3.99.
For a mass - market
paperback book with a minimum first printing of 25,000 copies, an average return rate of 50 %, an average $ 6.50 cover price, and an average 6 % royalty rate, an author would earn only $ 4,875 on the
sales of that book — and 15 % ($ 731.25) of that sum would go directly to the author's agent, leaving the author with a gross (before taxes) profit of $ 4,143.75.
Amazon, who manufacture the Kindle reader, say that the retail website has sold 114 ebooks
for every 100 printed books, and that this number includes the
sales of harcover and
paperback books where no Kindle edition is available.
A little while ago Amazon was crowing because ebook
sales for the Kindle were more than doubling hardcover and then
paperback sales on the site.
So,
for a $ 16.95
paperback, the net
sales price is $ 8.47.
A similar trend could be seen in the US where the Association of American Publishers announced an 18.7 % fall in digital
sales compared with a 7.5 % hike
for paperbacks and 4.1 %
for hardbacks.
But as time passes it has perturbed me more and more that so few of those
sales are
for the
paperback versions of my books available through Amazon's Createspace.
Bix box retailers such as Walmart, which accounts
for a double digit percentage of all mass market
paperback sales, are also not included in the Census Bureau report.
«After April 30, 2018, the standard Amazon 60 % rate will apply to all
sales for paperbacks.