This article starts with an in - depth analysis of our recent sales numbers, then we introduce the a recent Author Earnings Report to understand
how ebook sales work in the US, UK and on emerging markets.
to understand
how ebook sales work in the US, UK and on emerging markets.
To complement Joe Konrath's prediction of the future of eBook in 2014, the latest IDC research findings, according to Publishing Perspectives, signify a bright picture
how eBook sales gained a significant increase outside of the US.
Nielsen offers specific figures on
how ebook sales have affected print sales in adult fiction, adult nonfiction, and juvenile categories.
-- Only the relative * mix * seems to have shifted: i.e.
how those ebook sales now get divided up between different publisher types.
There's often depressing news about
how ebook sales are going down and people are getting tired of digital, or how people are buying coloring books but not ebooks.
Yesterday the The New York Times had a fascinating piece about
how ebook sales, contra Aggregation Theory, are actually declining even as publishers and book stores are thriving on the back of print: 1
The writer presents us with figures and numbers
how eBooks sales records have surpassed the printed books in many areas.
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I've been hearing readers complain about rising
ebook prices and spotted more than a few at $ 12.99, $ 17.99, even $ 29.99, but I hadn't yet seen the numbers on
how this affects
sales.
I can spend a lot of time quoting figures on
eBook and print
sales (and analysing
how efficacious they are, given the erratic quality of published numbers), but it isn't necessary for this discussion.
I also think one reason publishers are trying to keep
ebook prices high (despite evidence that it lowers
sales) is b / c they don't know
how to effectively do business in an
ebook market.
They don't see the used market in their spreadsheets, just as they don't see growing indie
ebook sales there, so they have no idea
how their decisions are playing out in consumer behavior.
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ebook sales statistics, he also talks about
how to price an
ebook.
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how publishers can hope to see their
sales of
ebooks rise while pricing them at, essentially, the same level as a printed paper book.
While the news of the 79 % increase in self - published
sales is exciting for the way it demonstrates
how much of the associated stigma is dissolving, there is still a long way to go before the bookselling industry reaches that long - awaited prediction of
ebooks wiping out the print market altogether.
How can you trust any conclusion about the overall direction of
ebook sales when 30 % of
ebook sales in the US are simply not being counted by the AAP?
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There's A Problem I've written before about
how small markets, both English language ones like Ireland and other territories with major markets in similar languages, face challenges when it comes to
ebooks: So we have large publishers seeing
sales internationally that they can EASILY service at little marginal cost.
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Amazon talks a real good talk about
how lower
ebook prices mean more
sales, but when they're going out of their way to make it hard for customers to buy Hachette
ebooks, it's the authors who're losing the
sales.
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eBook.
If Publisher does not:
eBook price: $ 10.00 $ 7.00 received by publisher (after 30 %
sales commission to retailer) 25 % of net royalty Royalty to author: $ 1.75 per title sold Yep, definitely worth the time to find out exactly
how this term is going to be defined in the contract when it comes to electronic books.
Amazon and Sony are still BOTH refusing to tell
how many
eBook readers they have sold, which is a good indicator that
sales are not as hoped.
In addition to deciding on what content they should run in
ebooks, newspapers are figuring out
how to incorporate
ebook sales with paywalls.
How do
ebook rights work, vis a vis international
sales?
If the attorney who filed the suit, Steve Berman, has his way, though, one of his chief witnesses is prepared to demonstrate
how much the consumers were overcharged with metrics from an economist based on the 18 % rise in
ebook sales as a result of artificial price fluctuations.
In particular, the huge increase in digital
sales shows
how rapidly readers and publishers are embracing
ebook reading.
«We've built a comprehensive publishing platform that can handle
ebook creation, marketing, direct
sales, distribution and analytics, and now we're seeing
how innovative apps like stories etc. can take several Pubsoft tools to offer a unique e-memoir engine.
Also, I agree with Galbraith, eReaders decrease in
sales is nothing to do with decrease in
eBook sales, most of us are first introduced nowadays to
ebooks via our smartphones and tablets, which all have an
eBook reader, when we buy
ebooks there and realise
how good an Ereader sounds then only we buy it.
Participants will be asked to engage with issues such as declining physical book
sales, the place of
ebooks, the cultural importance of bookshops and author events, the specialist knowledge of booksellers, and
how bookshops can provide customers with a place to buy books, however they decide to read them.
That is crazy
how far
ebook sales fell.
Considering
how deeply
ebook sales are being slashed in price, B&N should be a little bit more sustainable in their retail book selling business.
A recently leaked investor slideshow sheds light on
how reliant Hachette is on Amazon for their worldwide
eBook sales.
Tempelis spoke on the recent collaboration between digital media collection OverDrive and Sourcebooks, a project which sought to provide definitive numbers to the industry about
how ebook lending impacts future
sales of the title and of the author's and publisher's other books.