Some contracts offer an escalated royalty based
on the number of copies sold, e.g., 8 % of net receipts on the first 5,000 copies, 10 % on the next 5,000 copies, and 12 % on all copies in excess of 10,000.
If you think a book's rank is based only
on the number of copies sold, think again, as this blog post from Pat Bertram explains.
Amazon sets XRAY specifically for the top selling books, probably the top 2 % based
on the number of copies sold per day.
Not exact matches
The issue
sold 984,697
copies and is the
number six cover
on the American Society
of Magazine Editors October 2005 list.
In comparison, The King
of Fighters XIV, which also went
on sale the same day,
sold 23,242
copies that same week, coming in at
number three.
Hyrule Warriors was expected to be something
of a best seller in Japan, but as we saw by last week's Media Create
numbers, the game only managed to
sell just shy
of 70k
copies during its first week available
on the market.
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Imagine that she'll have a print run
of 8,000
copies (based
on a
number of authors I've talked to, this is about right — if you're getting more books printed than 8,000, and your advance is $ 3500, you're being seriously low - balled
on the advance figure), and she'll
sell 6,000
of those in the first year at 8 %
of the cover price
of $ 7.99, giving her $ 3835.20 in print earnings.
I also focused heavily
on learning in those five years while I got to my million words and started to
sell decent
numbers of copies.
Fair contracts should stipulate exactly what information must be displayed in the royalty statement: the
number of copies sold and returned; the list price; the net price; the royalty rate; the amount
of royalties accumulated; the amount
of reserve for returns withheld; the gross amount received by the publisher pursuant to each license along with
copies of statements received by the publisher from its licensees during the accounting period; itemized deductions; the
number of copies printed, bound, and given away; and the
number of saleable
copies on hand.
My sales
numbers range from 14
copies (yes, only 14 units
sold)
on one book to another book with 1000s
of copies sold, with an average payment
of $ 2.70 - 3.00 per unit
sold.
In a Kindle Direct Publishing newsletter, author Hal Elrod, who has
sold over 100,000
copies of his self - published ebook, said, «I can confidently say that the
number one key to driving book sales has been securing interviews
on other people's podcasts!»
A: I won't share the exact
number of copies sold of that title because there are a lot
of copycats who picked up
on the ranking
of last year and have their competing products out there — and it's certainly not rocket science
on what I did — and I certainly don't need other competitors but I will tell you this: the
number of sales so far through the end
of November
of that one title equals all
of 2010.
One
of the books went to
number four
on their bestseller list and was
selling a thousand
copies a day.
So I divide $ 350.00 by $ 3.25 to get the
number of copies that need to
sell to break even
on all production costs.
While having her book climb to the top
of the bestsellers chart
on Amazon, Rosalind also managed to
sell an impressive
number of copies of it in traditional bookstores — a huge dream for many self published authors.
The publishers will focus
on a release date
of the book where the hope is a lot
of copies will
sell very quickly, then when that date has faded into the past, the book will be basically tossed out, reverted back to the author, considered worthless to the publisher if it is not
selling some magic
number of copies set by a computer buried in some bunker somewhere.
In the US, the
number one adult fiction book
of the year (
on the Publisher's Weekly list) can
sell as much as 5 - 6 million
copies in hardcover.
Only 1 %
of manuscripts find a publisher, and only some 250
copies are
sold,
on average,
of each ISBN
number.
Whether or not your next book is published depends
on the
numbers: how many
copies of your first book were
sold by bookshops.
The service draws
on Amazon's vast database
of past sales data and analyzes the relationship between price changes and
number of copies sold.
The Digital Reader has reported that KDP is now offering data
on price points for ebooks: «The service draws
on Amazon's vast database
of past sales data and analyzes the relationship between price changes and
number of copies sold.
In the above scenario, you'd earn $ 22,500 more
on the same book with the same
number of copies sold.
However, looking at the
numbers objectively, it's hard to defend that an author making $ 0.11 a
copy on a book is a fair wage when there's a reasonable expectation that the publisher will
sell several hundred thousand
copies (and so easily recoup their initial investment
of advance, editing, cover art, formatting, etc..)
So she'll print a
copy of the cover from the Diamond website, tag it with the digital reference
number, laminate it, place it
on the shelf, and perhaps offer to
sell that issue at the $ 0.99 price point.
A growing
number of trad - pub new books
sell less than 1,000
copies in their first year (which usually means in their lifetime, since print books make most
of their sales
on the first couple
of months since release).
On any given day, a # 1 bestseller in an ebook store might be selling twice the number copies as the # 5 - ranked title on that day, and triple or quadruple the number of copies as the # 10 bestselle
On any given day, a # 1 bestseller in an ebook store might be
selling twice the
number copies as the # 5 - ranked title
on that day, and triple or quadruple the number of copies as the # 10 bestselle
on that day, and triple or quadruple the
number of copies as the # 10 bestseller.
I don't know the actual
numbers but Wonderful 101, Pikmin 3 and Bayonetta
sold very poorly but
on the other hand Mario Kart 8 has
sold close to 6million
copies, smash is sitting above 3million, super Mario 3d world just hit 4.3 million a couple
of months ago.
Still, the real test will come once both Battlefield 3 and Modern Warfare 3 have been around for a few weeks, but based
on simple
numbers alone it seems as though Battlefield won't be taking the crown away from Call
of Duty yet, despite having
sold an impressive five million
copies in its first week, exactly half
of the total ten million
copies which were shipped out.
Legend
of Zelda: Breath
of the Wild reached 8.48 million
copies sold on Nintendo Switch and approximately another 1.5 million
on Wii U, rounding that
number out to an impressive 10 million.
Thanks to the success
of the initial release, Frogger has «spawned» a
number of incarnations, including a casino game available
on free slot sites and a console version that
sold over 20 million
copies following its release in 2005.
According to the estimated
numbers, Rise
of the Tomb Raider
sold around 48,200
copies on Xbox One, while the other 8,500 sales are attributed to Xbox 360.
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He goes
on to explain what he would likely make
selling the
number of copies he estimates he
sold during the bundle, if those
copies were
sold at full price.
I suspect Final Fantasy XV will
sell a fair
number of copies on PC.
If Mario games can
sell ten million
copies with an install base
of the same
number on Wii U, then how many
copies could they go
on to
sell on PS4 and Xbox One?
PUBG
on the Xbox One managed to
sell a million
copies within 48 hours
of its launch into the Xbox Game Preview program, and only a month later, that
number had increased to three million.