Sentences with phrase «from hardcover sales»

The Big Five get a huge portion of their revenue from hardcover and paperback sales, so it's like saying, «If you discount the 80 % of the revenue that authors get from hardcover sales, indie ebooks easily outpace traditionally published ebooks.»

Not exact matches

The author will be directing his share of the profits from both hardcover and Kindle sales to this charity.

One dollar from every sale of the $ 13.99 hardcover will be donated to the American Red Cross.

Her sci - fi novel The Host wasn't a big jump from the teen fantasy she is known for, yet it still sold just 2 million copies in hardcover (yes, an impressive figure, but the fourth Twilight novel, by comparison, sold 1.3 million copies on its first day of sale!).

I have a theory that publishers are afraid that cheap ebooks will steal sales from newly - released hardcovers.

I do not count on my ebook sales for my main income from children's books, My paperbacks and hardcover do better.

2 min readAccording to a recent MediaBistro article, «net sales revenue from eBooks have surpassed hardcover books in the first quarter of 2012.»

The figures, which were posted on GalleyCat on Friday, show that net sales revenue from ebooks exceeded that of hardcover books in the first quarter of the year: a first.

It is about a worry that her husband's legacy will be undermined if sales are split between ebooks and hardcovers, preventing the last book of the Wheel of Time from hitting number one on either list.

Jason Boog at GalleyCat writes that the sales report from the March Association of American Publishers indicates that net sales revenue from adult eBooks were $ 282.3 million; hardcover sales, $ 229.6 million.

But publishers want more money than they are getting from the new world of declining hardcover sales and they are pushing the Agency plan rather than being creative, making special editions and charging more for those, in a win - win situation.

According to Nielsen Bookscan, only 23 % of total dead - tree book sales this year come from hardcover books.

«How I came to love the Price Fixers» — with their sweet talking about a bigger cut for all while the largest cut is in availability and attractiveness of the e-book and dreams of hardcover sales rising from the dust.

The hardcover costs $ 13.99, and one dollar from every sale will be donated to the American Red Cross.

The AAP is beefing up its monthly reports with data from many more publishers — 1,149 for January 2012 compared to under 100 in past months — and more detailed reporting on specific genres: Children's / young adult e-book sales are now broken out and religious book sales are divided by hardcover, paperback and e-books.

Hugh's figures (70 - 80 %) most likely relate to hardcover, which has higher sales in the bricks - and - mortar stores (Bookscan figures derive primarily from there) and less sales in the mass merchandisers.

Without real - time sales rank tracking through NovelRank, authors are left guessing if there was a positive effect from the book's coverage, not knowing where to spend their time and resources in the continued promotion of their paperback, hardcover, or audio book.

According to a recent MediaBistro article, «net sales revenue from eBooks have surpassed hardcover books in the first quarter of 2012.»

[50] In the overall US market, paperback book sales are still much larger than either hardcover or e-book; the American Publishing Association estimated e-books represented 8.5 % of sales as of mid-2010, up from 3 % a year before.

This list from NPD BookScan, ranked by unit sales, is based on monthly point - of - sale data for hardcover and paperback books from approximately 16,000 retail, mass merchant and non-traditional outlets.

And, besides, even at 17.5 % of gross, an author's e-book take is still better than their hardcover take, let alone the measly 8 % they get from paperback sales.

Mark Millar and John Romita, Jr.'s collected edition of Kick - Ass, their creator - owned mini-series from Marvel Comics» Icon imprint, was the best - selling graphic novel for the month of March with the Kick - Ass Premiere Hardcover, customer interest and sales fueled by the forthcoming film adaptation from Stardust director Matthew Vaughn.

(Note: August 2010 hardcover print sales are down 24.4 % from August 2009, trade paperback sales are down 18.3 %, and mass - market paperback sales are down 21.9 %; so much for «protecting print sales.»)

Mark Millar and John Romita, Jr.'s collected edition of Kick - Ass was the best - selling graphic novel for the month of April as the Kick - Ass Premiere Hardcover topped the sales chart for the second month in a row, its sales fueled by the just - released film adaptation from X-Men: First Class director Matthew Vaughn.

Book publishers know better: While hardcover sales declined slightly between 2008 and 2012 (from $ 5.2 billion to $ 5 billion), eBook sales grew at an astonishing clip during that period, rising from $ 64 million to $ 3 billion.

Ever since I heard that quote from Amazon, that e-book sales were greater than hardcover sales, I've been wondering if the e-book sales number included all the public domain and other free titles.

It was a big deal in 2009 when Kindle sales of The Lost Symbol outstripped Amazon's hardcover sales right from the drop, and a little over a year later Amazon announced that all Kindle editions were outselling hardcover units for the same titles, across the board.

Authors may have had an advance that publishers had to «make back» in hardcover sales within «x» number of days from release date.

In some markets, Walmart promotes hardcover copies of Sarah Palin's Going Rogue: An American Life on sale for less than $ 9 to get customers into the stores, down from its $ 29 retail price, Weiner said.

Also interesting: while e-books more than doubled from last January's sales numbers, mass market paperbacks -LRB--30.9 %), trade paperbacks -LRB--19.7 %), and hardcovers -LRB--11.3 %) all suffered double - digit percentage point drops from last year.

If, for example, Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice sells copies in hardcover, paperback and e-book during a particular week, sales from each format would be reflected in that week's ranking.

The cost to print your book (based on format choices you've made such as hardcover or paperback, black - and - white or premium color, page count, etc.) will be deducted from the $ 7.05 wholesale price, and you will be paid what is left over as your publisher earnings on that sale.

Hardcover sales for the first quarter of this year were reported at $ 229.6 million, up from $ 223 million for first quarter 2011.

If there is any change we are likely to see, at least from legacy publishers, it is that there will be even fewer mmpbs on the shelves now as they try to find more and more ways to push hardcover sales.

Less than 45 % of their Amazon income is coming from hardcover and paperback sales.

«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.

During that same period, there were also $ 58.1 million worth of children's hardcover books sold, and hardcover sales from university presses would tack on another $ 4.1 million for a total of $ 201 million in hardcover sales.

If he wasn't making out better on his ebook sales than he was on his hardcover sales, then he had a shitty contract deal with his publishers, because Amazon offers much better royalty rates for ebooks than you'll get from a traditional publisher for hardcovers.

According to the March Association of American Publishers (AAP) net sales revenue report (collecting data from 1,189 publishers), adult eBook sales were $ 282.3 million while adult hardcover sales counted $ 229.6 million during the first quarter of 2012.

E-book sales are up 160.1 % since last year, while adult trade paperbacks -LRB--17.9 %), adult hardcovers -LRB--23.4 %), and adult mass market paperbacks -LRB--30.1 %) all suffered double - digit declines from 2010.

Here's more from the report (Q1 2012 chart embedded above): «In Q1 2012, net sales revenue for eBooks was higher than that for Hardcover; this represents a switch of positions in the category vs Q1 2011.

On the other side of the coin, sales of paperback books were down 30 % year - over-year, and sales of adult hardcover books dropped to $ 49.1 million in January 2011 from $ 55.4 million during January 2010.