Sentences with phrase «higher number of ebook»

Naturally, it means having more emphasis on ebooks and the Author Earning report shows this trend with their higher number of ebook sales.

It's an accepted fact that romance fans dominate the digital market, as shown by the high numbers of ebooks sales, the romance publishers who've established ebook - only and digital - first imprints, and the success stories of bestselling self - published romance authors.

Not exact matches

We subscribe to a number of high quality databases, as well as having a print and eBook collection targeted at middle school readers.

While the numbers remain small — only a total of thirty - three libraries offer some form of ebooks — it's the high rate of... [Read more...]

A number of authors have criticized the concept of free book giveaways or listing ebooks at substantially lower prices, based on the belief that this will translate into not only higher rates of piracy, but also lost sales from readers who would have otherwise paid full price.

It seeks answers to a wide range of questions, including indie author income, number and length of books published, formats (ebook, print, audio or foreign), best marketing tools, retailers that result in highest sales, and the authors» goals with regard to indie publishing.

This new offering has a Buy It Now feature which allows patrons to click to purchase a book that they have enjoyed reading on a handheld device, a feature that encourages the already high number of book sales that occur after an ebook has been borrowed.

Most MG authors will tell you they sell as much (or more) in print as they do in ebook, but it's hard to move large numbers of print copies if you're not in bookstores (and with POD prices high relative to mass market print runs).

Some of the surprising numbers included the number of publishers who have no plans to produce ebooks at any time in the future, the very slight differences in total sales among the various top - name ebook distribution channels, and the startlingly high number of publishers who plan to release the majority of their titles in both print and digital editions.

While there was some data from the Center for Teaching through Children's Books that seemed to show children actually learn less and retain less content and demonstrate a lower level of comprehension when reading an enhanced ebook app (there's simply too much distracting content that takes away from the story line), Russell Hampton, president of Disney Publishing Worldwide, countered that argument with the explanation that e-readers are engaging reluctant and disinterested readers in higher numbers than ever before.

In the case of Scholastic «s publication of Suzanne Collins» wildly successful Hunger Games trilogy, print books should have accounted for a higher percentage of sales, given the prevalence of print over digital in that demographic; at the same time, ebook sales of E.L. James» 50 Shades of Grey trilogy and the anonymity of digital purchases — coupled with the self - publishing numbers from the first go - round — made ebooks seem to be the clear frontrunner.

Just think of how much higher that number could be if iBooks were available on other platforms, and if Apple offered a dedicated ebook reader equivalent to the Kindle.

Very few high schools offer eBooks as part of the curriculum (a number that's sure to rise).

The number of people being opposed to digital reading is much higher: two thirds of the people polled (69.1 %) are not at all interested in reading ebooks.

Other stories included our tip of the week, Sony bowing out of the ebooks business, similarities between high - earning authors and the number of indies topping the bestseller charts.

At least until major houses get rid of non-compete clauses, pay higher royalties for ebook sales, and limit their contracts to a set number of years.

There are a number of underlying reasons for these trends including higher ebook prices as well as the adult coloring book phenomenon.

In particular, I'm very struck by the number of trad authors in the UK who are now in almost open opposition to the publishers who are still mostly slapping high prices on an ebook at launch.

Their numbers show that they sell more eBooks at one price point than they do at another, which suggests an author could see more sales of eBooks at the lower price point than the higher, not that they will.

The announcement follows a number of high - profile success stories in recent years: EL James's best - selling erotic novel 50 Shades of Grey began life as a self - published ebook, while thriller writer Rachel Abbott's first six self - published Kindle novels have together sold more than 2.5 million copies worldwide.

The number of ebook readers was increasing every day, so those who were put off by the high prices were outnumbered by the new entrants who just wanted to read their books digitally on their shiny new devices.

While it is true that the number of available ebooks with sales continues to decline — from a high of 88 % in 2014 to just 54 % in 2016 — some of this might be due to the growing number of digitized backlist titles.

The glut of high - quality low - cost ebooks will get worse - In the old days of print publishing, the number of books in circulation was artificially constrained by the production output of traditional publishers, and by the shelf space available at brick and mortar retailers.

Though it's not possible to calculate how much money an author with that many sales has made without knowing the price of each ebook, every writer who has sold this number of books has made between a low of $ 17,500 (if every book is priced at only 99 cents, for a 35 % royalty rate) to a high of $ 350,000 (at the highest rate that KDP allows — $ 9.99, with a 70 % royalty rate).

The real number is almost certainly several percent higher, because the vast majority of the Uncategorized Single - Author Publisher ebooks are also self - published titles — we simply didn't have the time (or energy) to check all ten thousand of them, one by one.

Agency publishers are now giving up 30 % of the revenue from their higher - price ebooks, and they are selling fewer numbers at those prices.

That means the number of self - published ebooks is likely much higher than 87,201.

For daily unit sales, the survey shows that at least a third of all paid ebook unit sales on Amazon.com are indie self - published ebooks but the real number is almost certainly several percent higher.