Sentences with phrase «higher print book sales»

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NEW YORK (AP)-- James Comey's «A Higher Loyalty» had a very big opening week.Flatiron Books announced Tuesday that sales topped 600,000 copies, a number that includes print, audio and e-books.

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.

If publishers are «terrified» of e-books it's mainly because a) they don't understand the technology, b) they don't believe that people actually want to read books on electronic devices, and c) the high - level manager in charge of print sales wants to protect his turf.

Amazon is talking about ebook sales going to authors while print book sales would go to Hatchette and if Hatchette had agreed to this - showing they cared about their authors - Amazon would go back to large restocking / reorders on print books, discounting print books instead of selling them at the absurd high prices set by Hatchette which they've been complaining about, and re-enabling pre-order buttons.

If your printing is marked up so high to start, then the retail price of your book will be artificially exaggerated... and it will not be competitive in the marketplace nor can you make a profit on your personal book sales.

The high interest in comparing print and digital book sales has led to a renewed interest in looking at the reading habits of consumers around the world.

If you're prepared to take the omnimegahyperconglomerate (or whatever) at its word, however, then for every 100 print books it has sold so far in 2012 in the UK, 114 of its paid - for e-books have been downloaded (and if you're really, really bad at maths, that means that e-book sales are 14 % higher than print sales).

They are cheering the fact that print is holding up when overall book sales are either flat or declining (in part because of high prices) even as other forms of digital content are growing.

According to the article, the week leading up to Christmas showed the highest print sales in three years, possibly spurred by the release of a number of celebrity book titles.

Pricing your print book too high can edge out potential buyers (especially in high - competition genres where slim profit margins mean high - volume sales).

They also say you need to study carefully the details of each company's contracts; some charge very high markups for printing hardcover and paperback books, offer a lower share of the sales or make it difficult and expensive to leave a self - publishing company if you become dissatisfied.

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.

Also, depending on the specifications of our book, such as number of pages or a color or black - and - white interior, Kerry's note about Amazon's costs for printing being higher might not apply for sales within Amazon's system.

Amazon has never said precisely how many Kindle e-readers it has sold, but its higher sales of e-books than print books indicates it's a strong performer.

Twitter This means that your earnings potential from the sale of a print book will also be much higher.

It demonstrates that at present royalty rates, publishers benefit from higher margins on ebooks while authors receive less income than on the sale of a printed book.

That might be seen as a win for the «high ebook price to help conserve print sales» theory, except it was a second hand book and didn't help the publisher.

My sales for my e-books are much higher than for my print books, and most of my reviews come from my e-books.

There are legitimate reasons for this, and attempts by publishers to price e-books at or near print prices have alienated potential customers and probably hurt sales — I know I have passed on a book more than once when I saw that the Kindle edition was priced higher than print.

Their study determined that while the media is promoting the sale of eBooks, sales of print books are high.

Keep in mind that (a) not all printed books currently make sense as e-books (children's books, cookbooks, picture books, etc.), (b) not all books that do make sense have been released in e-book format yet, and (c) that e-books generally sell for less than printed books, so 8 % of revenue would mean a higher percentage of unit sales.

And more and more writers are awakening to the realization that if you are not a high - profile author who can command large sales, a traditional publisher will do little for you beyond editing and printing your book.»

One senior executive with a mainstream house foolishly tried to justify higher ebook prices as their way of recovering declining profits from dwindling printed book sales.

Given that those sales - by - format estimates fail to include a full 30 % of all ebook sales that lie hidden in the «shadow industry», the real market share commanded by the ebook format is far higher than what industry sources are reporting, and print books make up a far smaller portion.

That's because, according to our data in which we track top sales of books at Amazon, highest - ranking titles in the Kindle store differ vastly than those in Amazon's standard print - books category.

If you want to support an author, buy another copy (print, of course) and give it to a friend or library, or buy another book by them — higher sales make it more likely they will get more and better deals.

Unjustifiably high for SOME ebooks... With an e-book, there's no printing, no over-printing, no need to forecast, no returns, no lost sales due to out of stock, no warehousing costs, no transportation costs, and there is no secondary market — e-books can not be resold as used books.

Although sales of print books are less profitable than ebook sales, authors receive a much higher royalty rate from print (which may explain some of their pique at Amazon's tactics), and print bookstores are an effective means of helping readers discover new books.

Audio books, being accepted as a higher priced product than printed books, earn higher revenues per sale.

«on page 144, O'Shaughnessy prints tables showing the Compound Annual Rates of Return by Decade for the strategies of High & Low Price to Earnings, High & Low Price to Book, High & Low Price to Cash Flow, High & Low Price to Sales, and High Yield.

He cited a recent Publishers Association survey that reported in the United Kingdom, sales of consumer e-book titles decreased by 17 percent to 204 million pounds in 2016, the lowest level since 2011, while print book sales hit a five - year high.

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