Not exact matches
It gives you far higher per - book earnings than traditionally published authors are receiving (even those whose
ebooks are
selling for $ 10 +), it gives the readers a deal when
compared to most traditionally published
ebooks, and it's often considered a fair price by those who feel that digital books should cost less than the dead - tree variety since paper, ink, and shipping aren't a part
of the equation.
The bookseller chalked up the disappointing Nook revenue to «lower unit
selling volume» and dwindling
ebook sales, particularly when
compared to the release
of The Hunger Games and Fifty Shades
of Grey trilogies this time last year.
Hardcover sales in adult trade fiction and non-fiction combined increased to a total
of $ 1.5 billion in 2013;
ebooks in fiction - only
sold almost as much as hardcover for both fiction and non-fiction for adults — despite the typically lower price point
of ebooks compared to hardcover and paperback — a fact that speaks to the need to revamp the strategy by which publishers perceive digital - first and
ebook - only.
The future with an enforced «everybody
selling at our selected price» future means Amazon and B&N
sell less Kindles and Nooks because the book lovers are going to see the discounted HC at $ 18 and
compare that to an
eBook at $ 15 (plus cost
of device) and deem it not worth buying a Kindle or Nook edition with its limitations.
For example,
compare a romance novel
ebook selling on Amazon in English with a poetry chapbook in Dutch
selling in a unique bookstore in a chic corner
of Amsterdam.
According to the Association
of American Publishers and the Book Industry Study Group, by 2010,
ebooks represented 6.2 %
of the total unit market share with nearly 112 million units
sold,
compared to only nine million units
sold in 2008.
You can't
compare what he
sold when
ebooks were 2.85 %
of the market (and when he was beginning to get noticed) with what he's
selling as the market is growing.
If stats are to be believed, the number
of ebooks sold in 2011 is 970 million as
compared to 114 million in 2010.
I've
compared the number
of books I've
sold through the Big 6, with their marketing machine behind me, and the amount
of ebooks I've
sold on my own.
If you're traditionally published, you're probably going to get the majority
of your money from physical book sales (judging by Amazon's entirely physical top 100), so it doesn't make sense to
compare the tinier portion you'd get from
ebook sales to the best -
selling indie
ebooks that by definition don't have a physical counterpart.
Each
of the plaintiffs currently
sells ebooks with DRM through Kobo's platform — a tiny part
of the e-reading market, especially
compared to the Kindle.
A recent list
of Waterstones top -
selling paper books
of 2015,
compared with the top 20
ebooks purchased from Amazon in the same period, has revealed the gulf between what we are seen to be reading and what we're really reading.
However, as Mark Coker argues,
compared to many indie authors who can get $ 1.80 - $ 2.10 out
of each copy
of their
ebooks sold at the price
of $ 2.99, those authors who publish through the traditional publishers are «at an extreme disadvantage» because they earn only $ 1.25 - $ 1.75 out
of each copy
of their
ebooks sold at the price
of $ 9.99.