It's
not paperback sales and things like that, obviously.
Not exact matches
After dismal
sales and tepidreviews, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's memoir will endure one more slight: It won't be published in
paperback.
I didn't mention a blog post I wrote there earlier in the month, titled EBook
Sales Pass
Paperbacks, which is reprinted below.
Not only have ebook
sales passed hardback
sales at Amazon, now they've passed
paperbacks.
My
paperbacks run between $ 11.99 and $ 12.99 and that's with making them as inexpensive as possible (meaning I don't make much from each
sale).
Making it even more difficult, I use print - on - demand (POD) printers for my
paperback and hardcover books, which means that I don't have a stock of books available for
sale.
Moreover there are some books that are just available in electronic format and
not in print or many a times the release of printed versions are delayed in order to maximize the
sales of
paperback editions.
I do
not count on my ebook
sales for my main income from children's books, My
paperbacks and hardcover do better.
I don't make a lot off my
paperback sales, but I do pull in a couple hundred bucks a month from them for no extra work or expense.
BookStats did
not have figures to share about mass market
paperback sales at time of publication.
It turns out that e-books are
not cannibalizing hardcover and trade
paperback sales, as publishers» once feared, though mass market
paperbacks — which are often published much later than their hardback counterparts, and sold mostly in more traditional retail environments like drugstores — have been negatively impacted.
Figures are
not yet available for mass market
paperbacks, but their
sales are expected to fall.
Since book
sales for hardcovers and
paperbacks still outsell eBooks, it's important
not to put all of your eggs in one basket.
At this point in time (since most e-books can't be resold), e-reader owners miss out on things like garage
sales, rummage
sales and library
sales; places where a box of
paperbacks could be picked up for ten bucks.
This is
not to say that traditional
paperback manga
sales are slowing.
In the end I decide what the hell, it doesn't hurt e-book
sales anyway and if someone buys the e-book and the
paperback, great.
He didn't say how many copies he sold, but the
paperback has an Amazon
sales rank of over six million and the Kindle version has no
sales rank.
Stick To Books With Multiple Formats Most people don't read ebooks so having a
paperback (and / or audio) significantly increases the chance of a
sale.
Author Lynn Viehl had total
sales of 61,663 on her 2009 paranormal romance, Twilight Fall, earning her a spot on The New York Times mass market
paperback bestseller list but it wasn't enough to earn her any royalties over the $ 50,000 advance she received from her publisher.
I was actually able to switch one book over earlier, but I haven't noticed a bump — about 5
paperback sales a month.
So far, the
paperback sales aren't great in any way compared to the digital
sales (maybe 1 - 2 a month if any), even though I would have assumed Middle Grade readers still read more real books than digital (but maybe times are changing here, too).
What's
not mentioned: ebook
sales numbers are a fraction of
paperback sales numbers.
This has
not directly influenced hardcover
sales, but trade
paperback books are on the decline.
Unless they're going to get a large percentage of the revenue, Walmart is probably going to be loathe to hurt their
paperback sales, and publishers are going to be loathe to allow Kobo to hurt one of, if
not the top seller of
paperbacks in the US.
Bix box retailers such as Walmart, which accounts for a double digit percentage of all mass market
paperback sales, are also
not included in the Census Bureau report.
As for print
sales in German, the market is more or less stable, we don't see a massive line of growth or a dip... there is no particular movement, except publishers tell us there is some impact in the
paperback market due to ebooks.
Digital
sales, direct convention book
sales and trade
paperback sales pay some of that invested money back to me in the long run, but right now Skullkickers is still
not in the «black».
Without real - time
sales rank tracking through NovelRank, authors are left guessing if there was a positive effect from the book's coverage,
not knowing where to spend their time and resources in the continued promotion of their
paperback, hardcover, or audio book.
One thing I would say for the people thinking of the eBook and whether to go «only eBook» or
not is While my
sales haven't been «stellar» I've actually sold almost as many
paperback copies as I have for eBooks and people have really enjoyed having the «real thing» in their hands.
This leaves us mostly with
paperbacks and hardcover books, both of which, according to a Guardian article, are suffering «dramatically» (I don't see a 6 % decline in
paperback sales during a recession as dramatic, but that may just be me).
Many writers and authors have their romantic ideals of
paperbacks holding them back, they're
not going anywhere, but the marketplace is thriving because of eBook and eReader
sales.
Can't get over the basic fact of, assuming
sales were either over Kindle @ $ 3.99 or that your share of hard /
paperbacks was about the same, a year's income from your completed novel is about $ 1,500.
Again, these won't be eligible for MatchBook, but can help inspire more
paperback sales (even on Amazon, through the marketing effect of having more
paperback books out there).
And I don't really pay attention to the price; although, I will buy the cheaper version -
paperback vs hardback or if I can find it on
sale somewhere.
2011 was
not a great year for print book
sales, with all 5 categories of print book
sales down from the year before, with mass - market
paperbacks predictably getting hammered the hardest, as they are the most likely to be replaced by e-book
sales.
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.
I didn't think print was worth it for years, but as soon as I started offering
paperback copies of my ebooks through CreateSpace, I noticed that they made up 10 % of my
sales.
Amazon's CEO is predicting that ebooks won't start outselling all printed books for a while — saying ebooks won't even surpass the
sales of
paperback books until the summer of 2011.
I see about 10:1
sales of ebooks to
paperback, and I don't do ANY reformatting or cover changes... Whatever else you want to say, Amazon has given us a world of new authors to try, and I'm staying under the $ 5 price point to hopefully entice more buyers to try my books.
Two, as I noted back in 2010, I have a sneaking suspicion that if Amazon had prevailed and capped eBook
sales at $ 9.99, publishers would have responded by standardizing * all * eBook prices at $ 9.99, i.e., the eBook price would
not have dropped in concert with the
paperback price.
This is
not unusual as mass market
paperback sales have been declined for the last twenty years.
Maybe they don't want it to be too convenient for the monthly subscription fee, lest it cannibalize
sales of digital comics on comiXology or trade
paperback collection, but in our opinion, making comics easier to read benefits everyone in the long run.
Whether or
not a book needs a facelift depends on a number of factors, including (most importantly) hardcover
sales, the hardcover design's commercial accessibility, and its reproducibility in
paperback.
So maybe delaying the
paperback does
not actually increase hardcover
sales, but nobody even knows because nobody since has dared to try.
Even more impressive, e-book
sales not only surpassed, but thoroughly trounced both adult mass - market
paperback sales ($ 39.0 M) and hardcover
sales ($ 49.1 M) for the first time ever.
I suppose the next milestone will be when e-books overtake combined print (
paperback + hardcover)
sales, which can't be too far away now.
For
paperback sales we rely almost entirely from bookshops — the lack of
paperback sales from Amazon is
not helped by the fact Amazon say in bold that my book is out of stock, when there are in fact copies in their warehouse.
In fact, one client fired me after one month; he had sold more of his
paperback book than ever, but it wasn't enough — even though I increased his
sales by 1500 %!
It also seems that these more - recent Big Five debuts are
not making up that shortfall in added hardcover and
paperback sales... at least
not on Amazon.
Continue reading New (but
not surprising) AAP findings this week:
paperback, hardcover, and audio
sales grow; ebook
sales decline →