Sentences with phrase «numbers of ebook sales»

A lot of data was presented to the attendees about the low numbers of ebook sales in children's and young adult literature, although there was information that the popularity among digital editions for those readers is on the rise in the past year.

It is more likely that the attorneys general now have a better idea about the number of ebook sales that are covered by this settlement.

Naturally, it means having more emphasis on ebooks and the Author Earning report shows this trend with their higher number of ebook sales.

We are left, as I never tire of quoting The Bookseller's Philip Jones as writing, studying our own industry «by candlelight» because the overwhelming number of ebook sales transactions — those conducted by the major online retailers, Amazon chief among them — are withheld from the public as proprietary information.

It's an accepted fact that romance fans dominate the digital market, as shown by the high numbers of ebooks sales, the romance publishers who've established ebook - only and digital - first imprints, and the success stories of bestselling self - published romance authors.

Not exact matches

My ebooks are priced at 4.95 with Ridan because they did run a lot of numbers looking at pricing with Michael J. Sullivan's books and determined that sales in that niche were maximized at the 4.95 price point.

One source of numbers for online book sales, including for indie ebooks, is the website Author Earnings.

It's a numbers game: like it or not, independent publishing already gives almost half the ebook unit sales of the market and seems unstoppable.

I can spend a lot of time quoting figures on eBook and print sales (and analysing how efficacious they are, given the erratic quality of published numbers), but it isn't necessary for this discussion.

However, ebook sales overall are still robust when you take into account the 30 % of ebooks that do not have an ISBN number, and therefore do not show up in any of the traditional measures of ebook sales, as clearly documented on authorearnings.com.

A number of authors have criticized the concept of free book giveaways or listing ebooks at substantially lower prices, based on the belief that this will translate into not only higher rates of piracy, but also lost sales from readers who would have otherwise paid full price.

Authors typically are paid a percentage (which can be up to 40 %) of the sale from their ebook or agree to a flat fee from the publisher which will remain fixed regardless of the number of books sold.

It seeks answers to a wide range of questions, including indie author income, number and length of books published, formats (ebook, print, audio or foreign), best marketing tools, retailers that result in highest sales, and the authors» goals with regard to indie publishing.

As August winds to a close, there are a number of ebook readers and related items on sale, so I decided to put them all together in one long list instead of doing separate posts for each offer.

No matter what kind of book you're publishing, ebook sales will probably be your biggest numbers.

According to our current sales numbers, Amazon contributes to 45 % of the global ebook sales, while 55 % happens elsewhere.

With Black Friday and Cyber Monday quickly approaching, there are already a number of sales and deals going on for ebook readers and tablets.

As such, eBook sales in October were less than 1.3 % of overall book sales (although there is no doubt some finagling to be done to balance retail and wholesale numbers).

My sales numbers for August were pretty thin on the ground, so as of last night I lowered the ebook price for Faerie Blood on the various sites where it's being sold.

Some sources say BookScan does not report on 75 to 85 % of sales but I'd bet that number is actually lower (in terms of what BookScan reports on) because if you consider the lists of technical, scholarly, law - related books, the Christian market, the millions of self - published titles each year, and all of the eBooks that use Amazon's ASIN system, I'd wager a guess that BookScan gets maybe 65 - 70 % of the market.

If you've spent much time studying eBook sales on Amazon you know that the sales rank of your eBook (or print book, or DVD, or CD) is a number that constantly changes, often greatly.

By insisting on blindly continuing to spend copious amounts of money on print runs, only to have them end up as pulp after they have been remaindered by the dwindling number of book shops through low sales, over the far cheaper and fastest growing area within literature today — the eBook, does you no favours whatsoever.

Another question I find important to ask: Would it be better to publish with Amazon DP and opt - out Kindle in my Smashwords dashboard, or I would get the same number of sales if I distribute my ebook in Kindle Store via Smashwords?

Furthermore, publishers can set the price on ebook sales, as well as charge a «lending fee» and determine the number of days that the book is in the user's hands.

HarperCollins Sees Massive Growth on eBooks — Harper Collins announced that 20 % of sales currently come from ebook titles, and with the current rate of growth that number should rise within the next year and a half.

But after the holiday e-reader gift giving when the industry saw an expected spike in ebook sales to go with those new devices, USA Today's list contained an unprecedented number of ebooks that were actually faring better than their print editions in the marketplace.

A number of authors, including JA Konrath and Hugh Howey, made international headlines this week with their open discussions of what is wrong with ebook pricing and sales data.

This new offering has a Buy It Now feature which allows patrons to click to purchase a book that they have enjoyed reading on a handheld device, a feature that encourages the already high number of book sales that occur after an ebook has been borrowed.

Adlibris has been selling eBooks for a number of years and doubled sales in 2012, where it made $ 2.2 million dollars.

First, ebooks sold better in 2013 by numbers of total sales, but actually resulted in less overall revenue than they have in the past; this may stem from the understanding of where ebook pricing should fall, and the fact that Amazon was able to discount ebooks again after the stripping away of agency pricing following the DOJ lawsuit against the Big Five publishers.

Tempelis spoke on the recent collaboration between digital media collection OverDrive and Sourcebooks, a project which sought to provide definitive numbers to the industry about how ebook lending impacts future sales of the title and of the author's and publisher's other books.

Kobo has been running one of these programs for a number of years, allowing people to earn a 5 % commission for ebook sales, while devices and accessories generate 10 %.

It is about a worry that her husband's legacy will be undermined if sales are split between ebooks and hardcovers, preventing the last book of the Wheel of Time from hitting number one on either list.

The third - quarter numbers for 2015 show that so far this year, ebooks (not including school and reference books) have a 5.3 % share of book sales in Germany.

Amazon, who manufacture the Kindle reader, say that the retail website has sold 114 ebooks for every 100 printed books, and that this number includes the sales of harcover and paperback books where no Kindle edition is available.

In our walkup to The FutureBook digital publishing community's #FutureChat, I had written that the analysis, while declaring the staggered International Standard Book Number (ISBN) a goner, had failed to call out Amazon for not reporting its majority share of ebook sales (estimated at 67 percent in the US market) so that the industry - at - large can «see» and quantify itself.

There is a trend developing that when an ebook has achieved a significant number of sales the mainstream houses will seek out the ebook author and put a pbook publishing deal on the table.

What's not mentioned: ebook sales numbers are a fraction of paperback sales numbers.

But with online print and ebook sales, a book might never go out of print under the «not available for sale» definition, and online sales — no matter how limited — can keep the book active under the «x number of sales per royalty period» definition.

In 2009, eBooks made for only $ 113,000,000 of first quarter sales in the (over) $ 24,000,000,000 publishing market.5 Today, they are among the most popular products purchased online — which keeps that line of numbers growing continually.

How will I come to know about the number of sales, will Amazon be fair to me in reporting number of sales of EBooks?

In a Kindle Direct Publishing newsletter, author Hal Elrod, who has sold over 100,000 copies of his self - published ebook, said, «I can confidently say that the number one key to driving book sales has been securing interviews on other people's podcasts!»

As publishers such as John Wiley & Sons have seen with the recent second quarter sales numbers that reflect a drop in ebook sales of cookbooks, fewer readers may be taking their pricey digital devices to the messy kitchen countertop.

The new ebooks are poised to sell a number of units and boost sales for major online retailers.

Some of the surprising numbers included the number of publishers who have no plans to produce ebooks at any time in the future, the very slight differences in total sales among the various top - name ebook distribution channels, and the startlingly high number of publishers who plan to release the majority of their titles in both print and digital editions.

The compilation of sales numbers to develop the bestsellers lists will be in four distinct categories: a combined number for digital and print sales of fiction, digital and print of non-fiction, ebook - only fiction, and ebook - only non-fiction.

For now, Nielsen will be gathering these sales numbers from four of the largest ebook outlets, Amazon, Apple's bookstore, Barnes & Noble, and Google Books, which is an added incentive to self - published authors to make sure their ebooks are compatible and uploaded to those retailers.

In 2014, self - published books made up 16 percent of all ebook sales in the UK; in 2015, that number shot up to 22 percent as traditionally published ebook sales dropped while sales of the self - published variety rose.

If your goal is numbers of sales, you can always lower the price of the ebooks too.

Those numbers seem manageable, until you look at the average sales of ebooks.