Instead of worrying about what to do with hundreds of millions of dollars in
profits from ebook sales, it can focus on other things like how to keep selling Kindles at low prices when there is no future ebook income stream.
Hugh's story has inspired many with some simple facts, such as that he was reporting earnings of $ 150,000 per
month from ebook sales of stories he self - published.
Bloomsbury Publishing is reporting that half of their total sales now
stem from eBook sales in some markets.
Print books saw growth, and for the second consecutive year publisher revenues
from eBook sales declined and downloaded audio grew.
Having
gone from no ebook sales at the publication of her first book to almost a third of her sales being digital must have been a period of curious transition for Hillary Jordan.
Also, many of those 5,643 authors whose visible earnings from Kindle best - sellers topped $ 10,000 a year had other Kindle books which were not visible on the best - seller lists and so their overall Kindle ebook author earnings were higher than shown, plus, of course, any additional earnings
from ebook sales at other retailers, audiobook sales (10 % of the audiobooks on Amazon's best - seller lists are indie), and print sales.
The Big Money blog points out that Publishers, despite the higher prices, will make less
from eBook sales on Apple iPad than they do from sales on Kindle.
Yesterday, in a King Solomon - like letter that has not been sent to the publisher but was sent to various experts and author organizations for feedback and weighing in, Amazon has offered to give Hachette's authors 100 % of the sale price
from the ebook sales of their titles until this dispute is resolved.
Through the Booksellers Association, who have organised and orchestrated it, we get a kickback
from every ebook sale from a Kobo reader that we sell.»
The Txtr Beagle and Txtr's ebook store drive incremental
ARPU from ebook sales, with a high RoI since data costs are low for e-reading during the contract period.
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.
According to the German Publishers Association in the first nine months of 2016 the German e-book market increased by 1.7 %, yet revenue
from ebook sales increased by just 0.1 %.
This author had the «buy now» button
removed from his ebook sales page in the midst of an expensive BookBub ad campaign costing him money, ranking, visibility, and more.
A steady stream of billions of dollars a year from eReader sales and billions of dollars a
year from eBook sales.
If you're traditionally published, you're probably going to get the majority of your money from physical book sales (judging by Amazon's entirely physical top 100), so it doesn't make sense to compare the tinier portion you'd
get from ebook sales to the best - selling indie ebooks that by definition don't have a physical counterpart.
«Rule 34» was sold in 2008, so benefited from publishers not thinking ebook rights were worth much, so in principle I get nearly as much money
from an ebook sale as from a hardcover.
Well the truth is that booksellers will largely NOT
benefit from ebook sales, rather Amazon, Apple and Kobo along with whoever sells the ebook editions will.
It would be especially interesting to see if any effect was great enough to directly offset the reduced
profit from ebook sales, or is it possible that publishers could have been selling more ebooks all along without worrying about it hurting their paper sales?
99 % of indie authors will not have print distribution in physical bookstores, and I would postulate that all the success stories we have heard in the last 2 years about indie authors and huge sales have
come from ebook sales, not print.
In a letter to authors and their agents, viewed by Business Insider, Simon & Schuster's chief executive, Carolyn Reidy, wrote that the publisher is, «very happy with this agreement as it is economically advantageous for both Simon & Schuster and its authors and maintains the author's share of income
generated from eBook sales.»
Major publishing companies such as Penguin, Hachette and Simon and Schuster are starting to see 24 % of their revenue
stem from eBook sales.
Print books saw growth, and for the second consecutive year publisher revenues
from eBook sales declined and downloaded audio... [Read more...]
The
proceeds from ebook sales will go towards funding the activities of BitHub.Africa's new incubator and partner hubs across Africa.
So we learned yesterday, directly from the Association of American Publishers, that publishers» overall
revenue from ebook sales are declining.
Harry, do you get paid more
from ebook sales or paperback sales?
«With this program, a portion of the profits
from an eBook sale will be donated to the library,» said Matt Tempelis, Global Business Manager for 3M Library Systems.
Most of the money I've made, and am still making, on my memoir is
from ebook sales.
So next year, assuming the average sales stay the same and I do another five full - length ebooks, I'll be on $ 609 a month
from ebook sales.
re: Amazon killing book stores, I just heard that they have a program now where bookstores can sell Kindles, and get 10 %
from eBook sales going to the devices they sell.
The agreement «is economically advantageous for both Simon & Schuster and its authors and maintains the author's share of income generated
from eBook sales,» said a letter signed by Carolyn Reidy, the publisher's chief executive.
And, longer term, publishers anticipated Amazon would eventually use its market power to reduce the publishers» share of the available surplus (profit margins)
from each eBook sale.
I think, as some weblit and ebook authors have been mentioning recently, the weblit / ebook audiences aren't overlapping or that more success (at least financial) is coming
from ebook sales.