Since 2013, the publishing industry has seen a marked drop in the growth
of ebook sales in general.
With color devices in the hands of an ever - larger percentage of potential readers, is it finally time for nonfiction to gain a bigger
share of ebook sales?
It has been a highly successful book among other travellers and cyclists both in
terms of ebook sales and print sales.
The organization says that this is a far cry from the «astounding»
numbers of ebook sales projected last year.
Within the fiction genre, it was no surprise that the highest
percentage of ebook sales fell under the literary / classics category.
While children's books may not be the main source
of ebook sales for publishers, many are developing the market, knowing that today's app book reader is tomorrow's ebook consumer.
It's a lot of freedom and it means a lot when the company that controls 80 % or
so of ebook sales introduces such high royalty rates.
Fiction represents a large
chunk of ebook sales and those books generally don't benefit from an index.
The truth is, authors who self — distribute their eBooks have a far better
view of their eBook sales numbers than a traditionally published author.
The irony being that indies will continue to command a larger
chunk of the ebook sales, but those sales will be concentrated in fewer authors.
The clear
majority of ebook sales came from (adult) fiction (84 %), 5 % from children's and young adult literature, and a total of 11 % from nonfiction.
Further, while almost
half of all ebook sales in Europe have been in the UK, Germany is arguably the largest digital frontier after the US, with Amazon.de and Kobo's massive German ebook store both seeing slow but steady increases in sales.
Online, the Amazon's expansion into Australia is proving to be larger than expected but, in terms
of eBook sales at least, they may soon face competition as, though Google Books continues to circle in «low orbit», Microsoft has launched its own digital bookstore.
They've switched to the Agency Model
of ebook sales which allows the publishers to dictate selling price, in return for giving 30 % of the revenues to the vendors (Amazon, Apple, Kobo, Barnes & Noble, etc.).
The New York Times just put out an article citing the
decline of eBook sales as the simple fact that it had climbed too high for too long and it is stabilizing along with the fact that traditional paperbacks are growing in popularity.
The carriers benefit not only from increased mobile subscribers, but also a cut
of ebook sales through a txtr ebook platform that will be deployed specifically for that operator.
So... I'm describing this slide show to the other professional writers at lunch, and I (the mathematician's daughter who grew up on a steady diet of statistical analysis and probabilities [my father's two favorite subjects]-RRB- hear myself say, «Digital Book World asked this guy to examine the
impact of ebook sales on hardcover sales, making the study flawed in the first place.»
With the creation of Project Gutenberg in the 1970s, digital reading has actually been a viable publishing option for nearly forty years, yet only in 2010 did the industry take off in the current
state of ebook sales.
-LSB-...] also has another very good post on the
rise of ebook sales which has a graph that clearly illustrates just how rapid the growth in ebook sales has been.
I agree with what Andreys saying, and I do feel the big publishers who are pushing for this are working togather to try and wring more profits
out of ebook sales and / or push people back to buying more dead tree copies.
No news on whether any of this drop in sales was the
result of ebook sales and given that the figures include print sales through sites like Amazon.co.uk, the news paints a negative picture of the year to date for booksellers and publishers alike.