I know myself and the ladies in my book club can't get enough of reading, so maybe
low fiction sales are more to do with what's being put out there?????
Not exact matches
Hardcover
sales in adult trade
fiction and non-
fiction combined increased to a total of $ 1.5 billion in 2013; ebooks in
fiction - only sold almost as much as hardcover for both
fiction and non-
fiction for adults — despite the typically
lower price point of ebooks compared to hardcover and paperback — a fact that speaks to the need to revamp the strategy by which publishers perceive digital - first and ebook - only.
For example, Contemporary
Fiction and Romance (subcategories of Literature &
Fiction) feature books with the
lowest sales ranks and highest
sales numbers, so they are the bestselling categories in the German Amazon store.
Anywhere from a 10 % -35 % royalty (this is 10 - 35 % of what they earn, not of the
sale price of the audiobook) seems typical with advances from the
low hundreds to the
low thousands (I'm basing these numbers on what I've seen for myself and what a handful of other authors, mostly science
fiction and fantasy, have told me).
However, when I look at that # 13,000 rank in
fiction, the
sales are often
lower.
Knowing that the keyword topic «magic tricks» only has a few daily
sales, the keyword topic would be prioritized
lower for my non
fiction books.
With margins
low, distribution costs rocketing, limited or no marketing budgets for all but the top 15 percent of titles, and little major media interest in all but the biggest authors, book
sales drop a little more each year and fewer and fewer authors can live off their
fiction efforts.»
Self - published and micro-published authors, particularly those writing genre
fiction, were pricing their eBooks much
lower and claiming an increasing share of the market, particularly through Amazon, while large publishers were increasing eBook prices in a way that reduced eBook
sales.
Joanna: Without the bundling income, my
fiction sales would be a lot
lower.