Until 2008, ebooks were a tiny market segment, under 1 % and easily overlooked; but in 2009 ebook sales began to rise exponentially, and ebooks now account for over 20 %
of all fiction sales.
While Nielsen found that 50 %
of all fiction sales were in ebook format, only 4 % of children's fiction was digital.
Ebooks are already over half
of all fiction sales.
I was reminded of reporting here just last month that UK author and writing - community leader Joanna Penn tells me she makes 95 percent
of her fiction sales and 70 percent of her non-fiction sales in the US.
Now that online book retailers are generating 50 % or more
of fiction sales and 20 % or more of nonfiction sales, having reviews posted on the page for your book on those sites has become very important.
Not exact matches
Authors and publishers would also testify to her golden touch,
Of the 46 works of fiction picked by Oprah for her book club (which she recently closed down), sales averaged 1.5 million in 1999, the club's biggest yea
Of the 46 works
of fiction picked by Oprah for her book club (which she recently closed down), sales averaged 1.5 million in 1999, the club's biggest yea
of fiction picked by Oprah for her book club (which she recently closed down),
sales averaged 1.5 million in 1999, the club's biggest year.
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So nice to hear when other
fiction sales have slowed down as
of late.
Guernica: Talking
of E.L. James, it feels like a lot
of people in the publishing industry are worrying about poor
sales for good - quality
fiction.
Centralized reporting
of direct - from - author
sales is tougher to come by, but by all anecdotal measures the independent market has taken off, notably in the also - still - large category
of adult
fiction.
Marketing Power
of Digital — Print books are expected to continue a comeback in 2017, but for anyone publishing
fiction, e-books drive
sales and are easier to promote since social media and reader websites offer more economical ways to promote.
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.
It's important to note that this is not the Twilight / Hunger Games phenomenon; in recent years, the surge in
sales of YA
fiction was taken to be a sign that more and more young people were reading, but that was quickly dispelled once the industry understood that YA
fiction was drawing in massive crowds
of adult readers.
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David Lewis, the VP
of sales and marketing at Baker Publishing Group, said «Our trade paper
fiction revenue declined by 8 %, our e-book revenue increased by 3 %, and our cloth
fiction has increased by 45 %.»
In the consumer sector digital
sales of fiction increased 8 %, with a 10 % rise in
sales of adult non-
fiction.
Last year print
sales of consumer book titles —
fiction, non-
fiction and children's titles — rose almost 9 % and generated # 1.55 bn.
In a fall filled with
fiction heavyweights (including the new J.K. Rowling, which also goes on
sale today), Forgiven holds its own, keeping the reader glued to the pages as the darkly humorous and oddly hopeful tale
of Harold Silver unfolds.
Also, it is the
sale of ebook in the
fiction segment that is expected to reach 59.7 % in 2014 over all other segments.
A writer
of popular
fiction, Russell Blake, said that shifting his prices didn't really move
sales very much, but he didn't substantiate it with any specifics.
Self - published literary
fiction doesn't sell as well as genre
fiction does: This category makes up only 2 %
of all Amazon e-book
sales.
In the realm
of commercial
fiction, few genres surpass mystery in terms
of sales.
With only 5 % and 14 %
of juvenile non-
fiction and
fiction sales, respectively, coming from Indies, there's tremendous possibility for growth.
And overall, about 70 %
of US
fiction sales are online as either audiobooks or ebooks.
The direct
sales are skewing the results and shouldn't be used here to complete the analysis since most (
fiction) authors wont have the direct
sales channels that you employ (e.g. the how - to non-
fiction books that you sell and the sending
of all
of your authors on this email list to buy other products and get kick - back affiliate commission on it.)
How to Write a Sizzling Synopsis: A Step - by - Step System for Enticing New Readers, Selling More
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of a killer synopsis that drives
sales.
For traditionally published books only: 41 %
of children's non-
fiction book
sales are online 40 %
of children's
fiction books are online.
Just use the above math to figure how many books you need to sell depending on the price
of your book to make back your expenses at the base rate
of 25
sales per month for novels and 5
sales for short
fiction and collections.
-- Two - thirds
of authors consider serious reviews
of their work important for
sales, particularly authors
of literary
fiction (86.5 per cent), scholarly works (75.8 per cent) and poetry (70.2 per cent).
So you need a marketing strategy that will first attract people (to your web site or to the
sales page on Amazon or some other retailer); then you need to engage those same people long enough to figure out whether they like your kind
of fiction; finally, you need to persuade those same people to buy RIGHT NOW.
Imagine you're the best - selling author
of a highly regarded crime
fiction series published by one
of the world's largest publishers, and you notice that most
of the
sales of your novels are as e-books.
Not only that, but looking at a scatterplot
of the number
of short
fiction sales and the year
of the first novel
sale, this appears to be busted going back at least 30 years.
He confuses method
of distribution with quantity
of sales, and both with quality
of fiction.
That growth was fueled in part by a sharp increase in
sales of children's and young adult
fiction, up 117 % to $ 469 million.
«The impact will be felt by trade
fiction and non-
fiction to begin with, but I don't foresee that
sale of academic books will be affected in the near future.»
It maintained a rank
of # 22 in all
fiction sales for eighteen hours.
Ingram Publisher Services will handle U.S. and Canadian
sales and distribution for the company, including a series
of cartoon
fiction titles for children from its newest imprint, Salty Splashes Collection ™.
The difference is due to a different mix
of fiction and non-
fiction book
sales on the sites.
For
fiction, the manuscript is usually completed at the time
of sale, and so an advance could be used to pay back an author's time, to cover the value
of her time during the promotion phase, or to re-invest in her author brand.
In the first five months
of 2015, publishers» revenues from e-books
sales fell 10 per cent to $ 610.8 million, according to the Association
of American Publishers, compared to a 2.3 per cent drop in print book
sales in the
fiction, non
fiction and religious categories (that the industry calls trade books.)
In an AuthorEarnings.com report from Hugh Howey, a data - scraping survey
of a snapshot
of the top 50,000 bestselling ebooks on Amazon indicates that genre
fiction titles accounted for 69 percent
of those daily unit
sales.
Sales of adult
fiction ebooks increased by 13 %, but children's digital editions declined by 30 %.
In exchange, you can take advantage
of episodic
fiction which basically allows you to triple dip the
sales cycle.
Adult
fiction had the highest percentage
of e-book
sales, with 51 %
of sales purchased in the category bought in digital format.
The big
sale on Dark Horse Digital this weekend is science
fiction comics, with issues
of Aliens, Battlestar Galactica, The Bionic Man, and more for 99 cents each.
One
of the reasons why
sales are down is due to no big blockbuster titles in the juvenile nonfiction category, which declined 8 % compared to a year ago, while
sales of adult
fiction were off 12 % in the week.
According to the survey, ebooks
sales in the adult trade
fiction category increased in 2013 over 2012, up 3.8 % to a yearly total
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A novel that was a finalist for this year's Pulitzer Prize in
fiction leads the list
of new paperbacks on
sale today:
Unit
sales of adult
fiction titles decreased 1 percent in 2017, compared to the previous year.