Not exact matches
only 18
ebooks on the dollar deal and
only 19 on the digital Day Deal of best
sellers unless I am not reading the page correctly which is possible.
Amazon has much greater selection than its competitors so most
ebooks away from best -
sellers are
only being sold by Amazon.
There is are a lot of authors who publish
ebook only titles (some best
sellers) that don't bother with ISBNs.
He begins by outlining a staggering number of ways that companies can not compete with Amazon, but highlights the book discovery engine and the exclusive content as the
only ways that
ebook sellers like the now - Bookish powered Zola can keep up.
If the packager restricts the
ebooks to pdf format
only, this will limit the number of potential buyers for the
ebook and the number of web
sellers that will handle the book.
That space is almost entirely owned by Amazon, which not
only sells the
ebook readers but also happens to be the world's largest
seller of
ebook readers.
I checked popular German
ebook seller Sofortwelten for Schlauchgelüste and it looks like it's no longer available — but then again, it's
only 8 pm in Germany.
The
only thing I learned from the EPUB3 grid is that the major
eBook sellers are content with keeping us in the digital dark ages with DRM - lock in and poor rendering of HTML / CSS.
Not
only would it benefit authors in ways you mentioned, but it would force the other
ebook sellers to ACTUALLY COMPETE, as right now their main draw is «we're not Amazon.»
One of my author friends pointed out an
eBook that was promoted as an «International Best
Seller,» even though it appeared to be self published and had
only been out for a couple months at best.
Given the circumstance that most
eBooks are priced lower than $ 6 based on the best
sellers on Kindle Top 100 Paid chart,
only three out of 20 titles are priced at $ 11.76, $ 7.99, $ 7.78.
It lacks a virtual storefront, and it
only distributes to four
eBook sellers: Barnes & Noble, iBooks, Kobo, and Scribd.
Many tablet and smartphone users, myself included, may prefer to buy
ebooks from other
sellers (particularly if they're less expensive - something that Leatherbound.me can help you find out), but are willing to purchase from Amazon if that's the
only source for a given title or if there's a notable price difference.
The benefit of hiring someone to create your
ebook and distributing it on your own, is, if using Smashwords, you'll
only make 60 % of your sale price through B&N, Kobo, Sony, and Apple (less if your title sells to a market outside the US), whereas, each of these
sellers offers a higher royalty rate if you distribute directly through them (from 65 % -80 %).
The Hachette / Amazon dispute is an excellent case in point: Hachette foolishly insisted that Amazon include Kindle DRM on its
ebooks, and now all of Hachette's Kindle customers can
only read them in the Kindle app, making it a harder sell for them to start buying Hachette
ebooks from a different
seller instead.
Other than a handful of megabestselling author names, the vast majority of traditionally - published
ebook best
sellers are regionally limited in their success, and
only achieve significant sales in their home country.
The figures show almost half (49 %) of the KU titles on the Amazon Best
Seller lists are indie - published titles, while Amazon Publishing imprints make up 2 % of KU Best
Sellers (but
only 1 % of all Amazon Best
Sellers) and the Big Five Publishers have 0 % as they have no
ebooks in KU.
The overall best - selling list for 2017 saw 15 of the Top 20 Kindle
ebooks being published by Amazon imprints and that trend is continuing as the Top 20 best -
sellers for 2018 so far comprise 17 books from Amazon Publishing, with the
only two non-Amazon titles in the 11 - 20 places being Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, and Rupi Kaur's smash hit poetry collection Milk and Honey.