The annual list, which contains some repeat accolades for some cities but some new names on the list, was based on
sales of romance titles, relationship help titles, DVDs and music, and sexual wellness aides.
Just ask Scribd, who in February, 2016 had to put content limits in place and deleted most
of their romance titles from the catalog, just to stop the financial drain.
Scribd has had to reduce the number
of romance titles available (due to the voracious reader demographic of that genre), as well as limit the number of audiobooks a subscriber can borrow under their basic plan.
At a time when Scribd, iirc, is dropping a large number
of its romance titles because its subscription service was badly conceived, jumping out of Amazon could be viewed as self - defeating.
Now, in addition to the current
inventory of romance titles and thrillers from Minotaur books, public library patrons can enjoy best - selling, classic and high - demand titles from all Macmillan imprints such as Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Henry Holt, Macmillan Children's, St. Martin's Press and Tor.
With 89 %
of the romance titles sold being ebooks, and with more than 50 % of the authors who wrote those books being self - published, Author Earnings has concluded that around 67 % of the sales happening on Amazon are not being watched or counted by the industry.
The annual list, which contains some repeat accolades for some cities but some new names on the list, was based on
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Earlier this year, when romance readers began reading more books than Scribd's business model could sustain, Scribd reduced the number
of romance titles available.
And following our #FutureChat Friday on the topic of those service's new per - page payout and Scribd's de-listing of an unspecified
number of romance titles, Howey has written twice more, once on Saturday (4th July) and oncetoday (6th July).
And, of course, it was also on Wednesday that many writers were getting to grips with the news that Scribd had begun making what Smashwords» Mark Coker called its «purge»
of romance titles.