The result is
more total book sales, a growing market that benefits both John Grisham and you.
Not exact matches
Trump, according to the Daily Beast, spent
more than $ 55,000 at Barnes and Noble buying copies of the
book, which not only funnels money to the candidate but also pumps up the
books sales totals.
Under the current Amazon model, writers can make 70 % royalties and sell
more books (calculations show lower
book prices lead to enough increase in
sales to produce higher
total revenue).
It has sold over 500,000 copies, according to Belle; after Amazon published a second Bryan
book, says company spokesperson Finch, the author's
sales now
total more than a million copies.
My Samhain
books are listed on Amazon as Kindle
books - but
sales on Amazon make up as little as 1 % of my
total (no
more than 10 % at best, in
sales, and much less in royalties.)
E-books have gone a long way since 10 years ago, when they were little
more than an interesting novelty, or even since 5 years ago — in 2011 they represented no
more than 1 % of the
book market everywhere (except in the UK, where e-
book sales were 4 % of the
total and digital
sales were 8 %).
While the payout per
book isn't as good as a
sale or the $ 2.00 + KOLL borrow, the
total volume of KU borrows
more than makes up for a lower payout.
However, the 2016 Global ebook report shows that for some of the big publishers in Germany, ebooks already make up
more than 10 % and even up to 15 % of their
total book sales (source).
No spare change, but as I've pointed out elsewhere, this remains little
more than a rounding error for the
book publishing industry as a whole, representing still less than 5 % of anticipated 2009
total print
sales.
The pros to indie publishing include: same speed of vanity publishing, no middle man to take any
book sale profits,
more marketability (including to bookstores if the
book is set up right with a distributor),
total control over your project and higher credibility for speakers and coaches.
Although
total self - published ebook
sales did go up, it's possible that's less because self - published
books are gaining popularity, or whether they're just becoming
more numerous.
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 year.
Unlike its U.S. online counterpart, which now sells
more e-
books than print, the German Kindle store sells only one e-
book for every 100 print
books, making up only.5 percent of
total book sales last year.
Once caveat however, is that the
book pricing style of this service, which tends toward the higher end, could spell lower
total potential
sales when compared to some of the
more aggressive pricing strategies used by other
book publishing service providers.
So a 2 million ranking would mean that your
book is 2 millionth in terms of
total sales on the site: in other words, 2 million
books sold
more copies than yours.
During a press conference last Wednesday to celebrate the release of their latest Kindle reader (
more on that in a bit), Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos made a startling announcement: for
books available in Kindle format,
more than 35 % of their
total sales were for the Kindle editions.
According to Britain's Publisher's Association,
total book sales rose 4 % last fiscal year, and while print still makes up the majority of
sales, its small 1 %
sales slip was
more than made up for by a 66 % gain in the digital realm.
I'm much
more interested in knowing other numbers, like: • average monthly unit
sales (not free downloads) in other formats • recipients on your email mailing list • frequency of your emails to that list •
total books you've written
E-
book sales as a percentage of
total book sales more than doubled (up almost 135 %) from the previous year, from 8.17 % in 2010 to 19.18 % of all
sales in 2011.
With 14 % Kindle ownership amongst
book buyers we are seeing huge changes — 9 % of
total book sales are ebook
sales, Publishers are in crisis mode, eReader companies are becoming hugely important, everyone is trying to get into
books, lots
more people are reading.
More importantly, though, to calculate what percentage of the
book's
total sale was on Kindle, you need to add Kindle + BookScan + that other 20 percent together and look at Kindle as a percentage of that sum.
In addition, while romance
books are clearly the most popular genre today in terms of
total sales,
more people have read a crime / thriller
book over the last year than any other genre.
He starts by saying that «
sales of ebooks for fiction
more often than not top 50 % of the
total sales,» and then says of
total book sales that «only about 35 % of it is selling as print in stores (because 25 - 30 percent of the print
sale is online).»
Amazon controls
more than 40 percent of
total book sales in the U.S., 75 percent of online
sales of physical
books, and 65 percent of the e-
book market.
Jeff Bezos refuses to divulge how many Kindles Amazon has sold but he claims that the Kindle
sales make up
more than 6 % of
total Amazon
book sales.
Ebooks might cut the
sales of real
books in half, but they sell a lot
more ebooks, so
more total books overall, and with Amazon giving 70 % they could have made bigger profits than ever before.
In
total, e-books accounted for 18.8 % of all trade
book + e-
book sales, down from nearly 30 % in February, but still a healthy percentage that is
more than double last year's average of 8.2 %.