On the ebook distribution side, EpubDirect are the only (and admittedly impressive) crew actually making a go of that business and even they don't make up for the fact that
the majority of ebooks sold in Ireland will have been distributed through other channels.
The DOJ alleges that the publishers and Apple made the switch in tandem to combat Amazon's dominance and its $ 9.99 price point for the vast
majority of ebooks it sold.
Not exact matches
eBook sales don't account for any more than 30 %
of all books
sold, which means the
majority of the market is in printed books.
My experience is that the vast
majority of ebooks being
sold are novels... So, all those features don't really make a hill
of beans difference.
The
majority of EPUB books
sold by the
eBook store are unavailable in Canada due to publishers distribution copyright problems.
In a world where traditional publishers are still basically brokering to
sell and warehouse paper rather than books (i.e. sticking to an antiquated business model in a market where
ebooks are rapidly growing to be the
majority of sales and shouldn't be ignored), this is a landmark deal.
Have you taken a moment to figure out the price point where the vast
majority of eBooks are
sold?
The
majority of ebook readers
sold today are supported by Android and the
majority of ebooks read are on android devices.
The vast
majority of ebooks are
sold on Amazon, and with KDP Select, I get the most value out
of the platform.
Over time, I suspect we will see a
majority of book content
sold in
eBook formats, but I do not see print books ever going away.
The major online
ebook retailers are Amazon (which enjoys the
majority of the market and
sells both print and
ebooks), Kobo (an
ebook retailer a wide international reach), Barnes & Noble (print and digital), Apple (
ebook only), and Google Play (
ebook only).
It seems that the vast
majority of Big Five
ebooks that
sell reasonably well only do so in their home market.
If you're traditionally published, you're probably going to get the
majority of your money from physical book sales (judging by Amazon's entirely physical top 100), so it doesn't make sense to compare the tinier portion you'd get from
ebook sales to the best -
selling indie
ebooks that by definition don't have a physical counterpart.
Instead, we have a handful
of giants and one mega-giant
selling the vast
majority of ebooks.
It seems to me that the inescapable problem for anyone
selling ebooks on their own website is that the vast
majority of ebook readers don't even know that getting
ebooks from a site other than Amazon, Nook, or Kobo onto their reader or tablet is even possible, never mind how to do it.
Print publishing is more complicated, costly and time - consuming than
ebook publishing, and although print books still account for the
majority of book industry sales, many self - published authors
sell more
ebooks than print books.
As for libraries, the
majority of publishers surveyed (75 %)
sell ebooks to libraries, up from 61 % in 2013.
In the other hand you have a number
of major online
ebook retailers that
sell Adobe DRM'd EPUBs and PDFs that are compatible with the
majority of current
ebook readers, except the iPad.
Editor
of TeleRead Interview starts at 11:26 and ends at 37:11 Even if all the publishers remove DRM from every
eBook they
sell tomorrow, I would bet the vast
majority of Amazon Kindle customers would go right on being Amazon Kindle customers, just because it's so easy to tap the button and start reading the book.
Last week I looked at the complex set
of spreadsheets I use to track my
ebook sales and gave a whoop
of delight: I had just
sold my two - millionth book, something I would never in my wildest dreams have considered possible just over four years ago, particularly as the vast
majority of those sales were achieved through self - publishing.
Although, like most indies, I expect to
sell the
majority of books online, and as
ebooks, I do like to have the option
of being able to make them available through high street stores, for two reasons.
It's also worth noting that the vast
majority of authors fall short on best practices (witness the low adoption
of ebook preorders, even though preorders are proven to
sell more books, or witness the large number
of self published authors who design amateur - looking cover images despite the dearth
of low - cost professionals who for $ 200 or less can make their cover look amazing).
«Currently, none
of the big six has entered into any agreements with any independent brick - and - mortar bookstores or independent collectives to
sell their
ebooks,» say the booksellers, and «consequently, the vast
majority of readers who wish to read an
ebook published by the big six will purchase the
ebook from Amazon.»