This may not seem like a lot, but it is no small wonder why the major publishers now see 21 % of their revenue
stem from digital sales.
Just over half of UK publishers have seen growth in
revenue from digital sales in the last year and ebooks now account for 33 % of total sales.
Ashton further stated the new legislation will prove crucial in the long run once proceeds
from digital sales in South Africa picks up.
«What I'm hearing from a lot of people is that the 10 % [
profit from digital sales] is in addition to the physical publishing,» Roberson said as a reason why a more traditional publisher would partner with Monkeybrain.
Bricks and mortar music shops were already feeling the pinch
from digital sales at that point, but Putman was convinced that a wider selection, including a significant focus on non-music products like DVDs, board games, and clothing merchandise, would help buoy the business.
Can you give us an idea of what percentage of your revenue
comes from digital sales, and how you expect that to change — do you see it becoming a bigger slice of the pie or the whole pie getting bigger?
Amazon is the largest e-book retailer in the world and the most of the revenue that publishers
derive from digital sales, stem from Amazon.
Currently, revenue
from digital sales amount to about 20 percent in SA while the same in other more established markets stands at over 50 percent.
Further, Hickey believes The Old Republic could generate $ 161.9 million in total sales in its first 12 months, with $ 108.5 million coming
directly from digital sales.
This has fuelled digital sales growth among all three companies with EA now seeing 51 % of total revenue
generated from digital sales over the past 12 months.
Ubisoft recently reported that for the first time, the company made more money from these microtransactions than it did
from from digital sales of the games themselves.
This year, for the first time, industry - wide
revenues from digital sales are expected to surpass analog in North America and Europe as a wider array of customers migrate to networked surveillance systems.
Poleman and his team pull data from a wide variety of sources —
from digital sales to «thumbs ups» in streaming apps to a tactic called «hit predictor.»
More than 20 % of publishing giant Random House's revenues last year were
from digital sales.
Plus we sold a lot of the extra copies at conventions at cover price, and direct - to - retail at 50 % of the cover with us paying for shipping, so about $ 1000 on top of the profit made from the DIamond order, and a few hundred
from digital sales to - date.
«The majority of publishers (64 percent)[say they] derive 1 to 10 percent of their revenue
from digital sales, while 18 percent of publishers [say they) derive 11 to 20 percent of their revenue from digital sales.»