Yukifumi Makino: Without the consideration
of actual sales figures, my favourite project was Rez - a music game [laughs].
My guess is, her books don't earn out the advances, so she's fearful
of actual sales figures.
The UK has long experienced a greater level of transparency in terms
of actual sales figures than the US market, and several authors have come forward to outline exactly what they've earned from the sales of their books.
Not exact matches
While the privately - held family business declined to reveal
actual figures for its overseas markets, Russell said that
sales in international markets such as Singapore, Japan, United Arab Emirates and parts
of Europe currently account for less than 10 percent
of the company's total revenue.
At the end
of the May, following three rounds
of auction, it had sold most
of the items on the docket, but, based on listing prices — Beibu Gulf Equity Exchange has only partially disclosed
actual sales prices — raised only 1.38 billion yuan ($ 208 million), with the remaining assets valued at 1.58 billion yuan ($ 238 million)(see
Figure 2).
Performance quotations have been calculated as follows: (a) for periods prior to January 1, 2002, a restated
figure is used based on the fund's Class A performance, excluding the effect
of Class A's maximum initial
sales charge and including the Rule 12b - 1 rate differential between Class A and R; and (b) for periods after January 1, 2002,
actual Class R performance is used, reflecting all charges and fees applicable to that class.
Performance quotations for this class reflect the following methods
of calculation: a) For periods prior to the fund's Advisor Class inception date, a restated
figure is used based on the fund's oldest share class, Class A performance, excluding the effect
of Class A's maximum initial
sales charge but reflecting the effect
of the Class A Rule 12b - 1 fees; and b) for periods after the fund's Advisor Class inception date,
actual Advisor Class performance is used, reflecting all charges and fees applicable to that class.
He said the gulf between the forecast and
actual figures came after
sales of its Devondale - branded milk powder surged 300 per cent in the six months to December 31.
Compare that
figure with the number
of clicks that convert into prospects, or even
actual sales.
Automaker halts
sale of eK micro-wagon that boasts fuel
figures up to one - tenth better than
actual
Autotrader didn't give DT the
actual sales figures, but a rank ordering
of the top 50 vehicles millennials currently buy, based on information from lenders.
These are the same publishers who, in this day and age
of instant communication and RFID tracking and technology have convinced their authors that there is no way to do an
actual sales accounting for the purposes
of figuring royalty payments.
As for the
actual findings
of the report, it was interesting to see how the number
of copies was calculated for various books based on
sales rank along with the estimated royalties (something you could probably spend all lot
of time trying to
figure out and do very poorly).
In fact, the predictive nature
of the Amazon ranking system is what makes it possible for a newly - released book to outrank an older established title, even though the
actual sales figures for the latter far exceed the former.
My readers appreciate that level
of continued honesty, so I continue to share my
actual sales figures and marketing experiences.
It just keeps growing — this anchor
of the Kindle being a huge hit with
sales so shiny that no one can see the
actual figures.
And (2) the famous 70 - percent royalty an author is paid in this setting by Amazon seems to be
figured on the
actual price
of the
sale (in this case, 99 cents) rather than the author's list price ($ 2.99), despite the fact that the author didn't know about the discount that doesn't seem to have been in response to any competitive price pressures.
This can be regarded as a positive trend compared to last year's
actual deflation
of 5.8 — 19 % against the 2010
figures which were caused by heavy
sales and stock discounts.
Only the top 10,000 books are updated every hour and the ranking does not depend upon the
actual number
of books sold, but rather, on a comparison against the
sales figures of the other 9,999 books within that same hour.
Since the retailer doesn't release
sales numbers, his mission is to try to use its book
sales pages and authors»
actual revenue
figures to develop a picture
of what «s profitable in the Amazon ebook ecosystem and what authors might expect as potential results
of their decisions to self - publish or try to traditionally publish.
You just have to understand that it is probably better to look at the results as some kind
of average
sales (and borrows) over a longer period
of time, and you shouldn't consider the results an
actual daily
sales figure.
If they are using the same sampling method, or one similar to, that used by Bookscan, then the
figures are merely an estimation
of sales and not
actual numbers.
Was just reading about some start - up that is drumming up total
sales without disclosing
actual profits and was reminded
of what's going on with eReader and eBook
Figures.
As always, they haven't revealed any
actual overall
sales figures, but there is quite a lot
of interesting information in the press release minus the
sales speak:
Digital is cheaper than printed comics and offers us REAL
sales figures, without the 3 month delay
of the old newsstand system, the loss
of numbers from illegal digital
sales from folks who'd pay 99 cents an issue, or the middleman funnel
of comics retailers being the only
actual purchasers
of comics.
Barnes and Noble hasn't released any
actual sales figures for the Nook Tablet, and neither has Amazon for the Kindle Fire, but if you look closely at some
of the signs it becomes clear that the Nook Tablet isn't selling nearly as well as the Kindle Fire.
With the
actual figure coming in at $ 1,540 M, that means my prediction was within 3 %
of the
actual number... just like my prediction for 2011
sales made two years ago.
The data is provided in conjunction with surveys conducted by the American Association
of Publishers, and represents wholesale
sales from only 13 U.S. - based e-book publishers, so total reported
sales figures understate
actual sales.
The new borrow rate
of $ 1.40 (I've rounded up the
figure from the
actual outturn
of $ 1.39 1/2) means all Kindle authors with books priced in the 35 % royalty range will gain from borrows compared with
sales, but authors in the 70 % royalty range will lose out even at the minimum
of $ 2.99 where a
sale would net $ 2.09.
For periods prior to the fund's Advisor Class inception date, a restated
figure is used based on the fund's oldest share class, Class A performance, excluding the effect
of Class A's maximum initial
sales charge but reflecting the effect
of the Class A Rule 12b - 1 fees; and for periods after the fund's Advisor Class inception date,
actual Advisor Class performance is used, reflecting all charges and fees applicable to that class.
Although we don't have
actual sales figures available to us, the game only had about 15k entries on its leaderboard at the end
of its launch month.
Xbone also hypes games to hell and cancels them at the last minute, avoids revealing
actual sales figures, masters
of pr spin, constantly re iterates the same three ip until even hardcore fans are bored
of them (which is why forza, halo and gear
sales have been declining recently), use backwards compatibility to bloat their barren library
of games, piss developers
of so much that non want to work for them...
It was also noted by the publication that most
of the
figures obtained by SuperData were for the first week, which means the
actual sales figure to date will be higher.
It's not technically the end
of all
sales reports for the system (the active users count acts as a very loose proxy, and hardware
sales figures might be released every now and again (maybe yearly or biyearly), but we won't be seeing Microsoft releasing
actual sales figures for the system on a regular basis from here on out.
(An earlier version
of this article suggested that those were the
actual sales figures, but Random House UK would not confirm them.)
As Business Insider notes, the data provided by Mixpanel doesn't measure
actual sales figures, but rather the number
of users who are using iPhone apps integrated with the firm's software development kit.
For a long time, conventional wisdom held that resumes should be super-templated, super-formal affairs, complete with stiff language that no one would use in
actual conversation: I was responsible weekly for the procurement
of sales figures and expenditure reports.
This makes determining the
actual figure of an earnest money deposit that works for both buyer and seller a negotiation within the overall negotiation
of the
sale.
And as is often / mostly the case, none
of this reflects in some appraisals, relative to final reported
sale price; and the mortgage broker or the buyer's bank is none the wiser; (because the «pay commission
figure» is no longer shown on the
actual APS); resulting in a possible question: is the public, or the mortgage broker or the bank, even, mislead sometimes in this regard?