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.
Not exact matches
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.»
Harry, do you get paid more
from ebook
sales or
paperback sales?
So that's what made publishers move
from magazine
sales to
paperback sales.
My
paperbacks run between $ 11.99 and $ 12.99 and that's with making them as inexpensive as possible (meaning I don't make much
from each
sale).
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.
Fictionwise sold 1.5 million e-books in 2008, and Pendergrast said the average
sale is the same as the cost of a market - price
paperback book, ranging
from $ 8 to $ 15.
I got a lot more per book in royalties than that
from New York on a
paperback sale.
While ebooks
sales are still dwarfed by
paperback and hardback
sales, publishers are now seeing even less revenue
from their recently repriced bits.
And, anecdotally, we hear
from fans all the time at the conventions that were new to Valiant, picked up some digital issues during a comiXology
sale, got hooked and bought up the trade
paperbacks, and then moved to monthly print issues.
They already have a
paperback on Amazon
from 2009 where they had a few
sales, but no Kindle version.
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.
Author Lynn Viehl had total
sales of 61,663 on her 2009 paranormal romance, Twilight Fall, earning her a spot on The New York Times mass market
paperback bestseller list but it wasn't enough to earn her any royalties over the $ 50,000 advance she received
from her publisher.
Four nonfiction titles —
from sharp social commentary to poignant memoir — earn slots on our list of the best new
paperbacks on
sale today:
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.
The hardcopy books (
paperback and / or hardback) available for
sale from your Author Webpage always have a 10 % discount, to encourage your webpage visitors to buy your book.
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.
Can't get over the basic fact of, assuming
sales were either over Kindle @ $ 3.99 or that your share of hard /
paperbacks was about the same, a year's income
from your completed novel is about $ 1,500.
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.
2011 was not a great year for print book
sales, with all 5 categories of print book
sales down
from the year before, with mass - market
paperbacks predictably getting hammered the hardest, as they are the most likely to be replaced by e-book
sales.
[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.
Sales of Konrath's $ 2.99 ebook will deliver him about $ 2.10 a copy (Konrath says $ 2.04; not sure where the other six cents is going...), as much or more as he would make on a $ 14.95
paperback from a trade publisher, and significantly more than he'd make on a $ 9.99 ebook distributed under «Agency» terms and current major publisher royalty conventions.
When Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg named The End of Power as the first title to be read in his new book club, Nielsen BookScan reported that global print
sales in the stores
from which it collates data exceeded 3000
paperback copies in a week.
(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.»)
In raw dollar amounts, that's more than three times what I'd get
from a mainstream publisher for each
paperback sale.
The
sales of a book's various subsidiary rights —
from paperback to film, theater or television;
from foreign and translation to merchandising — can create additional streams of income for the author.
This year is the first time the eBook is competing with the
paperback on equal terms
from the start, and it's definitely the first time we can expect to see any comparable numbers between Kindle book
sales and the print medium as a whole.
Our P&L is for
paperback and ebook
sales; we'll pay our author, G. Scott Fitzgerald, an advance that's roughly equivalent to royalties earned
from sales of the first print run.
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.»
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.
All trade print segments had a decline in August
sales with the largest coming in mass market
paperback where
sales from reporting companies fell 36.4 %.
I have
sales every day in either trade
paperback or an e format
from somewhere in the world.
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.
Less than 45 % of their Amazon income is coming
from hardcover and
paperback sales.
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.
One other interesting note: the Publisher's Weekly press release noted that
sales of adult mass - market
paperbacks «all but died,» coming in at only $ 20.8 M, less than half the figure
from the previous year.
Monthly e-book
sales ($ 49.5 M) haven't quite caught mass market
paperback sales ($ 57.1 M) yet, but they're getting ever closer as e-book
sales increase dramatically and print book
sales decline
from 2009 levels.
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.
Alien: Covenant Origins is currently on
sale from Titan Books as a mass market
paperback.