Sentences with phrase «genre fiction sales»

Indie authors are earning nearly half the total author revenue from [leading] genre fiction sales on Amazon.

Indie authors are earning nearly half the total author revenue from genre fiction sales on Amazon.

Though when I tuned in, while the livestream was already in progress, I initially was confused, because instead of an awards ceremony, there was a bar diagram on the screen, breaking down genre fiction sales, while a voice detailed the market share of indie writers in the various SFF subgenres.

Not exact matches

Self - published literary fiction doesn't sell as well as genre fiction does: This category makes up only 2 % of all Amazon e-book sales.

In the realm of commercial fiction, few genres surpass mystery in terms of sales.

In an AuthorEarnings.com report from Hugh Howey, a data - scraping survey of a snapshot of the top 50,000 bestselling ebooks on Amazon indicates that genre fiction titles accounted for 69 percent of those daily unit sales.

For example, the e-book market share of the science fiction and fantasy sector globally for the 10 weeks since June was 10 %, more than treble the genre & rsquo; s market share of print book sales.

Juvenile Fiction was the best - selling genre in Canada in 2015, with a 29.6 % share of total unit sales through traditional book retailers, representing 20 % of the value of the total book market.

Romance and other genre fiction tend to dominate ebook sales and so must have more «future».

The growth in e-book sales in genres such as romance and science - fiction is leading to a cannibalisation in sales of printed books, according to Nielsen BookScan data.

Ken: On the one hand, having a good backlist help your sales so if you're committed to one particular genre like in science fiction, when I released a new series in the fall, it did really well and those readers read my other science fiction series so it had that kind of cascade effect.

Now they account for nearly half of all book sales, whether fiction, non-fiction, poetry, picture books, or textbook, and ebooks of all genres are gaining in popularity month after month.

In Brazil, print book sales are down 3.5 % for the last 12 months, with declines in the top 2 genres: Fiction and Adult Non-Fiction.

Within the fiction genre, it was no surprise that the highest percentage of ebook sales fell under the literary / classics category.

Earnings for the average genre - fiction author will skew even further toward their e-book sales.

Whether a non-fiction print edition from a major publishing house or a genre fiction ebook from a self - published author, contracting the services of a group like MethodApps can easily provide the extra push needed to market a book, especially if the app is sold or distributed in the same sales channel as the book and can therefore be bought at the time of the book purchase.

For certain authors, hardbacks may be a sizable portion of sales, and for genre fiction, mass market could also be a large part of their sales.

If you're a genre writer there are even more resources — for instance, Locus magazine reports on US science fiction / fantasy / horror sales.

It doesn't break down sales based on genre, or fiction v. non-fiction.

The fact is I'm an avid reader of almost every fiction genre and I buy what I buy even if they aren't on sale or free.

For example, the e-book market share of the science fiction and fantasy sector globally for the 10 weeks since June was 10 %, more than treble the genre's market share of print book sales.

While there is much to learn about the bestsellers in genre fiction and what proportion is indie vs. legacy, and what their respective slices of the pie amount to be, extrapolating from that day to annual income from sales is a bit dicier.

Mystery / Thriller Character Generator: In the realm of commercial fiction, few genres surpass mystery in terms of sales.

Given that some of these numbers mirror what I heard at the recent Superstars Writing conference (specifically the sales of e-books compared to print books in genre fiction), I'm more inclined to believe the whole kit and caboodle.

Getting away (momentarily) from the topic of literary fiction and into the purely commercial reality of marketing and sales, no matter what genre one writes in, how in the world will we sell our books if we don't know what people find attractive to read?

In fact, Ross tells Publishing Perspectives that one criticism of the pro forum involved genre: literary fiction authors and those who work in «minority genres» that don't typically sell as robustly as others might never reach the levels of sales that popular - genre authors do.

In the self - publishing market, Science Fiction and Fantasy are a close second behind Romance with 56 percent of all sales in these genres coming from self - published authors.

These books represent about 5 % of sales, which is far from genre fiction.

The big winner here is genre fiction, which represents a whopping 69 % of sales.

Self - published and micro-published authors, particularly those writing genre fiction, were pricing their eBooks much lower and claiming an increasing share of the market, particularly through Amazon, while large publishers were increasing eBook prices in a way that reduced eBook sales.

The growth in ebook sales in genres such as crime and romance has not made up for the shortfall in literary fiction, prompting ACE to outline ways it intends to support affected authors.

Cool Gus Publishing is one of the most successful author - generated publishing partnerships with sales ranking in the top 1 %, and numerous titles selling into the top 100 in their genres on Kindle, PubIt and other e-book platforms, including a # 2 National Bestseller on BarnesandNoble.com and two separate # 1 science fiction bestsellers on both US and UK Kindle.

Sangeeta Mehta: Sales of self - published literary fiction are anemic compared to that of genre fiction, but is this a reflection of the industry as a whole — or because the success of literary writing depends on established, traditional systems that aren't accessible to self - published writers?

Not surprisingly, around the same time that e-reader sales were taking off, we were seeing a real increase in Canadian e-book content ---- from small publishers to some large publishing houses ---- and not just in terms of new titles of bestsellers and genre fiction that are very popular with the format.

Historical Fiction, for example, makes up 7 % of the overall gross Kindle sales in our all - genres July data.

He added that sales of novels, which had been particularly affected by the rise of ebooks as fans of genre fiction such as crime novels fed their habit digitally, were also on the rise again.