For now, Nielsen will be gathering these sales numbers from four of
the largest ebook outlets, Amazon, Apple's bookstore, Barnes & Noble, and Google Books, which is an added incentive to self - published authors to make sure their ebooks are compatible and uploaded to those retailers.
Not exact matches
Obviously, the publishers are not happy with the sweeping changes in what has proven to be the
largest retail book
outlet for consumers in Canada, but supporters of the stores and its new model are quick to point out that the bookseller is simply trying to survive in the digital era; of course, the publishers themselves are also trying to survive the
ebook revolution, and losing some of their allies won't help.
The numbers I've seen thrown around as «conventional wisdom» (as opposed to hard data, which you are citing) is 4 % of print fiction is sold through Amazon, which makes them the single
largest print
outlet in the world per store (counting them as one store), and about 75 % of
ebooks are sold through Amazon.
Pennsauken, NJ — BookBaby announced two new major add - ons to its
eBook distribution ecosystem — Google Play and OverDrive — two of the
largest digital
eBook retail
outlets in the world, certain to help expand the reach and sales of BookBaby's self - published authors.
Although we see reports of more and more authors making
large sales via these
ebook outlets, and there are more and more free
ebooks to be had — there are also suggestions that most of those authors won't last longer than 2 years, and then be replaced by another author who won't last 2 years.