Sadly, that's a whole different ball of wax when it comes to
formatting than fiction is, and I don't think I was able to help him much.
Not exact matches
More adult
fiction is purchased in ebook
format than any other
format.
Ebooks are now THE dominant sales
format for adult
fiction; bigger
than hardcover, bigger
than paperback.
According to Romance Writers of America, 39 percent of romantic
fiction is published in eBook
format, and romantic
fiction accounts for more
than $ 1 billion in sales and 13 percent of all adult
fiction.
You need to crunch your numbers, including the fact that traditionally published books sell very well in places other
than Amazon and in
formats other
than ebooks, while self - published genre
fiction still faces the same (or worse) uphill battle that it always did.
I think that one reason genera
fiction is selling so well in e-book
format is that with such a low price point, it is actually cheaper (and obviously faster) to download a romance or fantasy e-book
than to drive to the library to borrow it.
Today, digital
formats (i.e. ebooks and audio) make up the majority of all US
fiction sales of any
format — more
than 50 % of traditionally - published
fiction unit sales are already digital.