For every 100
hardcover titles sold by Amazon over the past three months, it has dispatched 180 Electronic Books.
Not exact matches
Friends all wanted copies, a local publisher printed it, took it to a book fair, and the rest is publishing history: after BOY and GIRL versions first appeared in the late - 70's, Once Upon a Potty
titles became best - sellers in the U.S., Holland, Israel & Japan; the
hardcover books and animated VHS videos have
sold over 4,000,000 copies since 1990 in the United States alone!
Publishing a book means making strategic, and sometimes difficult, decisions around format (
hardcover vs. paperback), Price (NEVER price a book to recoup your investment, price it to
sell), trim size,
title and subtitle.
New best -
selling titles often cost less as e-books than as
hardcovers.
Song Reader by Beck Hansen, which retails on Amazon for just over $ 22 for the
hardcover, is available on eBay through Roxy Media UK's storefront for over $ 40; other third party vendors on Amazon such as Any Book and Murray Media
sell the same
title for as much as $ 124.
It's the 9th best -
selling hardcover fiction title on the list, which means it should hit the NYT Hardcover Fiction somewhere around # 9 this week; no mean feat in a season crowded with big name
hardcover fiction
title on the list, which means it should hit the NYT
Hardcover Fiction somewhere around # 9 this week; no mean feat in a season crowded with big name
Hardcover Fiction somewhere around # 9 this week; no mean feat in a season crowded with big name authors.
In the digital world, in 2010 we've seen a proliferation of available e-book
titles (the Amazon store roughly doubled its catalogue to over 750,000 e-books), e-books starting a global expansion (including the launch of the Amazon UK Kindle Store), and we've even seen e-book sales on Amazon overtake
hardcovers and overtake all print books for best -
selling titles.
The company noted that it has
sold three ebooks for every
hardcover title and that ebooks are even outselling paperbacks (Amazon notes that it
sells 115 ebooks to every 100 paperbacks).
Amazon's US Kindle store currently offers more than 630,000
titles and the company announced this month that it was now
selling more e-books a month than
hardcover books, a trend that Bezos expects to accelerate.
So the e-books include almost every
title that is
selling, while the
hardcover sales are divided among a much smaller set of frontlist
titles.
To see what Amazon's pricing looks like alongside EPUB -
selling rivals WHSmith and Waterstones, we compared the top 5
titles from the New York Times best
selling hardcover fiction list (prices as at the date of this review publication).
Fearing that e-book sales would cut into their print sales (and that everyone would opt to buy cheap e-books over more expensive
hardcovers), publishers sought a way to
sell release new
titles as
hardcovers and e-books simultaneously, while still maintaining some control on pricing.