And for those who have already gone the indie route — what
kind of sales figures are we talking about?
But today, an article by Gabe Habash featured in Publisher's Weekly provides some very insightful speculation into what
kind of sales figures produce a bestseller.
I'm sure Hollywood must be salivating pretty hard right now wishing they could get
these kinds of sales figures for some of their movies.
You'll have to determine which option will be the best value for money for you, based on
the kinds of sales figures (current and projected) you have.
Not exact matches
That number is
kind of justified given the impeccable
sales figure of iPhone X reported in Q4 2017.
While you
kind of wish Comedy Central would spring for a Blu - ray edition, the
sales figures must not be high enough to support them.
So you need a marketing strategy that will first attract people (to your web site or to the
sales page on Amazon or some other retailer); then you need to engage those same people long enough to
figure out whether they like your
kind of fiction; finally, you need to persuade those same people to buy RIGHT NOW.
In the States, the APA's member - publishers who report their
figures have seen 20 - percent or better increases in audiobook
sales for two years, 2014 and 2015, making it the
kind of sector in publishing that many publishers, weary
of the hobbled progress
of recent ebook markets, understandably welcome.
Assuming that
sales and platform are one
of the things that they would look at, I'm curious to hear from those
of you who've done it whether you'd be willing to share ballpark
figures of what
kinds of sales numbers it would take to even get a traditional publisher interested?
The only company that releases any
kind of metrics at all is the Australian Publishers Association, but they do not publicly divulge
sales figures.
I also noted her Amazon
sales ranks were in the mid six -
figure range, which roughly translates into a book
sale every two or three days — not exactly the
kind of income over which you can quit your day job.
You just have to understand that it is probably better to look at the results as some
kind of average
sales (and borrows) over a longer period
of time, and you shouldn't consider the results an actual daily
sales figure.
If we even approach the
kind of conversion to digital
sales that seems to be happening in the US or even the UK, we can expect that 30 %
figure to be a reality by 2015.
Because in most jurisdictions bitcoin is regarded as a commodity rather than money, you must
figure out, first, how to book your bitcoin transactions, and second, what
kind of taxes you are liable for (
sales, income, capital gain etc).
I
figure that here, you actually
kind of ARE selling something, but letting them know
of a property for
sale isn't exactly like selling a phone plan.
The company doesn't release
sales figures, but it maintains one
of the largest
sales operations
of its
kind, says a spokesperson.