Sentences with phrase «more from their ebook sales»

Harry, do you get paid more from ebook sales or paperback sales?

This is true because most indie authors will earn more from their ebook sales than print.

If the Harper - style Agency Lite model prevails, authors can expect to earn more from their ebook sales.

We make more from each ebook sale than my wife ever made from each paper or ebook sale when she was traditionally published, and she sells way more books also because they are lower priced.

Not exact matches

Everyone from John Scalzi to the L.A. Times took a shot at questioning, distinguishing, undermining, spinning, and just plain refuting Amazon's assertion that reducing ebook prices would result in more sales and bigger profits for publishers and authors.

Judging by sales figures it would seem that the English perceive ebooks to be nothing more than yet another passing fad from across the pond in the good -LSB-...]

The latest US book industry sales figures from the Association of American Publishers show ebooks are now tracking at 9 % of domestic trade book revenue for the 8 - month period January... Read more >

The additional cost to future sales from having driven more people to the cheaper ebook format would be almost impossible to calculate.

«KindleUnlimited indie page reads (at a current run rate of $ 180M + / yr) are now paying Amazon - exclusive indie authors far more total dollars than «wide» indie authors are earning from their sales at all non-Amazon ebook retailers combined (a total run rate of roughly $ 50M / yr in non-Amazon indie author earnings).»

This report, which showed a 10.5 % increase in digital sales, comes at a time when the debate around ebooks and their viability from different angles is starting to... [Read more...]

Quote ««KindleUnlimited indie page reads (at a current run rate of $ 180M + / yr) are now paying Amazon - exclusive indie authors far more total dollars than «wide» indie authors are earning from their sales at all non-Amazon ebook retailers combined (a total run rate of roughly $ 50M / yr in non-Amazon indie author earnings).

So, congratulations, WH Smith, you've managed to make your ebook shop even more confusing than it was before, with a broken search system, and miscategorised books (and, incidentally, importing previous sales from the old shop, claiming they were from 2005 rather than August this year).

Judging by sales figures it would seem that the English perceive ebooks to be nothing more than yet another passing fad from across the pond in the good old US of A.

Amid the uproar and media firestorm surrounding the recent discovery of inappropriate subject matter available in the children's digital sections of some ebook retailers» websites, Kobo and several other self - publishing platforms took a bold stance and blocked self - published titles from sale until a thorough review... [Read more...]

According to data released yesterday from Nielsen, ebook sales in the UK alone increased by... [Read more...]

With ebooks gaining more visibility in our culture and more authors trying to make a viable income from their sales,... [Read more...]

Solomon was slightly more forgiving as she applauded Howey's efforts to arm authors with solid data and knowledge, but even she went on to state that publishers earn a significant portion of their revenue from print sales, and Author Earnings only takes into account ebook sales.

The initiative is called #Amazoncart and this program is one of the best things to help facilitate more eBook sales from indie authors.

-LSB-...][publishing] More on the Amazon vs Macmillan problem jlake.com3 hours ago by Jay First of all, here is Macmillan's statement on Amazon's withdrawal of all Macmillan print and ebook titles from sale.

It will be interesting to see what the other big publishing houses decide to do, I have a feeling your going to see the companies who do nt push for equivalent ebook to physical book pricing will have higher sales and in the end make more money off of ebooks AND «dead tree» books as well thanks to word of mouth from ebook readers.

Buying ebooks from other ebook stores on an iOS device is a little more of a hassle because you have to use the web browser instead of the app (otherwise they have to pay Apple 30 % of each sale) but that's a minor inconvenience to avoid having your ebooks locked into one brand forever.

With the average sales tax percentage that a U.S. customer pays reaching 9.64 % in 2010 according to a finding published by Vertex, Inc., and considering that residents in some areas of the country pay an astounding 13.73 %, the savings over the holiday on a device that ranges in price from $ 134 for an e-reader to over $ 500 for a tablet can more than cover a few ebooks.

With ebooks gaining more visibility in our culture and more authors trying to make a viable income from their sales, is it time for companies to pay for product placements in books?

And Amazon reports that their sales of ebooks are up this year in both units sold and revenue, so they are getting more customers from somewhere.

I accept that there are far more indie - published ebook writers currently making a living from Kindle sales than traditionally - published authors if only because they are vigorously promoting and marketing their books.

In such a context, Amazon is more insulated than other ebook reader manufacturers, because the giant bookseller can recoup some of its losses through the huge sales generated from ebooks and other content available through its online store.

iSuppli also notes Amazon is more insulated than other ebook reader manufacturers because it can recoup its losses through sales generated from ebooks and other content available on its online store.

Assembled by Howey with the help of an unnamed «Data Guy» from publicly - available positions of 120,000 titles on Amazon bestseller lists correlated with estimates of sales rates, the report suggests that self - published authors represent a quarter of the titles published electronically, earning 39 % of ebook revenues on the Kindle store, or «more... than Big five authors, combined».

From an article for paidContent.org, the numbers in the professional & trade books division were $ 9 million in sales for the second quarter, which is eight percent of the division's total revenue and more than double the ebook sales from the same quarter last yFrom an article for paidContent.org, the numbers in the professional & trade books division were $ 9 million in sales for the second quarter, which is eight percent of the division's total revenue and more than double the ebook sales from the same quarter last yfrom the same quarter last year.

There is currently massive growth in China, with 56.69 % more book sales and 32 % increase in ebooks in 2011 from 2010.

The release comes as data from Aptara shows «all but 6 % of trade publishers are currently developing e-books «and that «1 out of 5 eBook publishers generates more than 10 % of their sales from eBooks `.

Since Apple takes a 30 % cut of the sales price, then it seems likely that ebooks bought as in - app purchases will cost 30 % more than if bought direct from Amazon or Barnes & Noble.

My ebooks are sold on Amazon and B&N — more sales occur through Amazon but a respectable number are also downloaded from B&N.

The AAP may have reported a 9.3 % decline in ebook sales in the first four months of 2015, but the news coming from Germany is much more positive.

Whether it's a price hike from $ 1 to $ 3 to make more per book sold, or it's a Publisher mandated increase to $ 5 to «protect» physical book sales, raising ebook prices reduces the number of people who will buy your books.

Potential banana skins abound From simple things like Amazon's patent for reselling ebook licences (bound to have an impact on ebook sales especially of lead titles if it were ever to be put into practice) or like discovering that despite having a great product your brand just doesn't resonate with consumers beyond your core audience and hence you lose a bundle of cash trying to sell them tablets or realizing that your main competitor is not the rival publisher of literary novels or commercial non-fiction but a game in which trajectory considerations are a more important aspect of gameplay than would normally be considered cool and various music video fads from Gangnam Style to Harlem ShFrom simple things like Amazon's patent for reselling ebook licences (bound to have an impact on ebook sales especially of lead titles if it were ever to be put into practice) or like discovering that despite having a great product your brand just doesn't resonate with consumers beyond your core audience and hence you lose a bundle of cash trying to sell them tablets or realizing that your main competitor is not the rival publisher of literary novels or commercial non-fiction but a game in which trajectory considerations are a more important aspect of gameplay than would normally be considered cool and various music video fads from Gangnam Style to Harlem Shfrom Gangnam Style to Harlem Shake.

Sales of Konrath's $ 2.99 ebook will deliver him about $ 2.10 a copy (Konrath says $ 2.04; not sure where the other six cents is going...), as much or more as he would make on a $ 14.95 paperback from a trade publisher, and significantly more than he'd make on a $ 9.99 ebook distributed under «Agency» terms and current major publisher royalty conventions.

If we assume that Amazon has even as high as 70 % of the market for indie ebook sales, authors may be giving up 30 % of their potential earnings in order to reap 13 % more from a single outlet.

First Baldur notes that ebooks have brought about a considerable devaluation across the industry (which presumably has been a boon for readers) something I question and isn't really held up by the figures either even if you look at the most recent figures from the UK, print sales were down modestly but digital sales more than made up for it.

They are seeing increased ebook sales and profits from ebook sales, authors are largely playing ball and while they still resent the scale of some of the technology companies they must work with to succeed in the digital space, they more or less have it down.

The rest is spread very unevenly as follows: 25 % in second - hand and car - boot sale locations (Ravenbooks features here and I suspect in 2010 will feature even more) which is made up almost exclusively of out of print and pre-2000 books, the last 5 % or so gets spent fairly randomly everywhere from good independents, to local shops with self published titles and random online direct purchases and ebooks (I'm still primary print and suspect I will always be so, despite a belief and passion for digital text).

They would do this by receiving their royalty on a higher average price that readers might pay for a more useful ebook — because royalties ultimately are based on what a book will sell for — and from the extra sales made to readers who want this specific feature.

I've spent anywhere from $ 5 to $ 20 to promote a post when I have a new book release and I always see an uptick in the ebook sales, and more page likes.

Washington Post — Amazon makes an offer to Hachette authors — this article takes an interesting look at the stats, which indicate that Hachette would have much more to lose by giving up revenue from their author's ebooks than Amazon — «According to Hachette's Web site, the publisher makes approximately 33 percent of its sales from e-books; the New York Times reported that around 60 percent of that business comes through Amazon.

And they are a little bit more remarkable still when you consider that sales have fallen in the same period in which retailers have gained back the ability to discount ebooks from all of the big agency lite publishers (who were always told that discounting would drive their sales volume).

While we have observed numerous indicators over the past two years that have shown the agency model's lethal effect on the Defendants» market share, we also have these remarks from the single individual who probably has more access to ebook sales and pricing data than anyone else in the world, in a June 2010 Fortune interview with Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos:

However, that rate has declined due to the increased proportion of online sales and ebook sales (no or minimal returns)-- not to mention smaller, more conservative orders from chain stores.

All the while, locking in ebook royalties that pay them enough more per book that they aren't leaving much on the table in the short term from less sales at higher prices.

It would be especially interesting to see if any effect was great enough to directly offset the reduced profit from ebook sales, or is it possible that publishers could have been selling more ebooks all along without worrying about it hurting their paper sales?

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