One look at the dire state of my websites (and lack
of eBooks for sale) should be a tell - tale indication that I am a traveler first and travel - industry entrepreneur second.
The opinions and recommendations given on this website are completely independent - Dr Addie is not in on the payroll of any corporation, nor does she hold shares in any company mentioned on this site, nor is she on any board of directors of any corporation or company whose products are mentioned on this site, with the exception
of the ebooks for sale on this site, where she receives up to 65 % of the income, this being her main source of income.
Of course, you can already access catalogues
of ebooks for sale from within iPhone apps like Stanza but this method essentially takes you to a third party store with no cut going to Apple.
In the past month, Random House has drastically raised the price
of ebooks for sale to libraries.
The signing publishers can not restrict an ebook retailer's ability to set, alter or reduce the retail price
of any ebook for sale to consumers in Canada.
Not exact matches
The New York Times,
for example, says
ebook sales fell by 10 % in the first five months
of this year, according to the Association
of American Publishers, which collects data from nearly 1,200 publishers.
Why are publishers putting most
of their effort into designing
ebooks for the iPad when Apple is only their third biggest
sales channel?
Instead
of accepting the 25 percent royalty that most authors take
for ebook sales, she now keeps ALL the royalties
for Harry Potter
ebooks and audiobooks.
Just because a website visitor has downloaded your awesome
ebook or registered
for your informative webinar doesn't exactly mean he or she is ready to chat with one
of your
sales reps and jump right into a purchasing decision.
This
ebook breaks down all
of the benefits that employee advocacy has
for sales, marketing, and HR.
And a bit
of good news: My publisher just put everything on
sale so you can grab my first book «Jesus Feminist «
for just $ 3.99
ebook edition or $ 9.41 in the paperback.
This
ebook is part
of a Special Fall
Sale ($ 2000 worth
of content
for only $ 39) from now through Nov 8th.
For complete versions
of these parenting videos and many more, download the enhanced
ebook of TEACH YOUR CHILDREN WELL — on
sale July 24!
I didn't
sales pitch any
of my friends - I sent them the
Ebook for free because I want to help others overcome their problem (lack
of income).
In fact, Real Food, Really Fast has been selected as a featured
ebook until May 23rd on Amazon.com which means you can snap up a digital copy
for the fire
sale price
of just $ 1.99.
This
ebook is part
of a Special Fall
Sale ($ 2000 worth
of content
for only $ 39) from now through Nov 8th.
Publisher / line Year (or projected year)
of release Which book it is
of yours /
for that publisher (1st, 5th, etc.) Advance per book (if any) Standard royalty percentage (
for regular print
sales AND
for ebook sales) Total earnout to date (INCLUDING advance) Title acronym with month / year
of release (if known)
In the weeks prior to the free
sale I was selling an average
of 2 - 3
eBooks per week and 7 print books
for the entire month
of December.
My only MG is a 5 - year - old collection
of short stories (short stories, collections and otherwise, are always hard to sell), but I was never tempted to go ahead with the novels I'd had planned
for those characters, not based on those
ebook sales.
Though Amazon actually eats a loss
of an estimated $ 18
for every Kindle sold due to manufacturing costs and other factors, the company makes up
for it through
sales of ebooks and apps, RBC said.
Other major publishers may be content to reap record profits off the growth
of ebook sales while paying authors practically nothing
for digital books with far lower production and distribution costs, but we wouldn't feel right doing that.
It is true that there are many more
eBook stores than the four majors but generally speaking they represent a small fraction
of all
sales for most authors, and especially new authors.
A few respondents made a point
of telling me that the majority
of their
sales came from an unexpected source (Apple in one or two cases, AllRomance
eBooks in another), and
for a handful
of authors, B&N
sales far surpassed Amazon earnings.
One source
of numbers
for online book
sales, including
for indie
ebooks, is the website Author Earnings.
Pull all
of your book data into the ISBN management section: title, subtitle, price, ISBN,
eBook ISBN,
eBook price, trim size, page count, word count, category, age group — into book ISBN fields at www.myidentifiers.com (this will start the process
of getting your book's data out to the world and make it easier
for the
sales to be tracked.)
So, we're throwing a good old - fashioned author
sales contest
for Download Day and the author who sells the most copies
of their
eBook on December 26th, 2011 — even if you sell your
eBook for free — will win a Barnes and Noble NOOK and $ 100 off coupon good
for anything on Lulu.
For the publicly stated purpose
of SLOWING DOWN
EBOOK SALES.
If we convert your List Price to another
Sale Currency, the converted List Price in the Sale Currency will be your List Price with respect to the offer and sale of your eBook in the Sale Currency for all purposes under this Agreem
Sale Currency, the converted List Price in the
Sale Currency will be your List Price with respect to the offer and sale of your eBook in the Sale Currency for all purposes under this Agreem
Sale Currency will be your List Price with respect to the offer and
sale of your eBook in the Sale Currency for all purposes under this Agreem
sale of your
eBook in the
Sale Currency for all purposes under this Agreem
Sale Currency
for all purposes under this Agreement.
As
of this writing, U.S.
ebook sales have been hovering between 25 % and 30 %
of total book
sales for over a year.
The latest US book industry
sales figures from the Association
of American Publishers show
ebooks are now tracking at 9 %
of domestic trade book revenue
for the 8 - month period January to August 2010.
Ebook sales were US$ 293M
for the eight months compared to total trade book
sales of US$ 2.91 B.The data is based on reported
sales from participating APA members.
If you request that a
eBook be withdrawn from
sale, Barnes & Noble will make commercially reasonable efforts to terminate the future
sale of your
eBook by the tenth (10th) business day after you submit your request
for withdrawal, provided however that Barnes & Noble shall continue to be able to distribute such
eBook to past purchasers
of that
eBook.»
Many
of my software programs do not work even Adobe Digitial Editions (epub reader) no longer works, so I guess your
ebook sales will drop from iTunes... A $ 30 Fee
for Lion will cost you $, 1,000's in new software.
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.
The latest US book industry
sales figures from the Association
of American Publishers show
ebooks are now tracking at 9 %
of domestic trade book revenue
for the 8 - month period January... Read more >
Two versions
of the Gemstar
eBook were available
for sale in the U.S., the REB 1100 (successor
of the Rocket
eBook) with a black and white screen, and the REB 1200 (successor
of the SoftBook Reader) with a color screen, both produced under the RCA label, belonging to Thomson Multimedia.
The top news
of the week touched upon waning
ebook sales for trad pubs, the EU's recent ruling that
ebooks aren't books, the new Author Earnings Dashboard, the getting - by attitude, and the indie startup mindset.
eBook sales don't account
for any more than 30 %
of all books sold, which means the majority
of the market is in printed books.
When you consider that most
of these
ebook sales would be
for non-illustrated adult fiction and non-fiction — well under half
of the $ 2.91 B — it's quite likely that the
ebook share is closer to a third.
CEO John Sargent mentioned that the primary reason they are engaging in the whole Netflix
for eBooks concept is because Amazon accounts
for 64 %
of all Macmillan digital
sales, and this must change.
Take
for instance the findings
of Nielsen BookData compiled in its latest report, Understanding the E-book Consumer that has revealed a 9 % decline in
sales of ebooks in May over the same period a month ago in the UK.
eBooks have grown to be a billion dollar business and now accounts
for 27 %
of all book
sales in the US.
Despite being single - retailer exclusive to Amazon Kindle, the dozen or so Amazon «house» publishing imprints between them account
for 14 %
of all US
ebook sales, 10 %
of all UK
ebook sales, and 8 %
of Australian
ebook sales.
According to a recent survey by Nielsen Books,
eBook sales made up 23 %
of unit
sales for the first six months
of 2014, while hardcover's accounted
for 25 % and paperbacks 42 %.
Of the platform's 200,000 +
ebooks available
for sale, more than 10,000 titles have been included in the Entitle Christian service to date.
It is time
for other stakeholders in the e-book market to clearly acknowledge the important role
of libraries in developing a reading culture which actively fosters the
sale of books and
eBooks».
While the news
of the 79 % increase in self - published
sales is exciting
for the way it demonstrates how much
of the associated stigma is dissolving, there is still a long way to go before the bookselling industry reaches that long - awaited prediction
of ebooks wiping out the print market altogether.
We now see
eBooks accounting
for 26 %
of all
sales, but print books are still strong with 74 %.
Tolino estimates
sales across its network accounted
for approximately 37 %
of the German
ebook market
for the first quarter
of 2015 with other major players in the market being Amazon and iBooks.
OverDrive, which powers
ebook lending
for over 19,000 customer libraries, announced today that it is broadening its educational library focus with the addition
of a General Manager
of Education and Chief
Sales Officer position over K - 12 libraries.