My direct sales have gone up and down, between 18 % and 30 % (again, September was a good month due to a non-fiction launch
outside of the ebook retailers).
Not exact matches
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Outside of Amazon.com, 4 other major online
retailers comprise nearly the entirety
of the remaining 26 %
of the US
ebook market: the Apple iBookstore, the Barnes & Noble Nook store, the Kobo US bookstore, and GooglePlay Books.
So now we find ourselves with the majority
of our revenue coming from
outside of Canada, with active
retail presence in 20 countries, delivering
ebooks to another 170.
The one - star reviews
of books that are not even published yet are definitely harmful to an author's career because consumers who go to an
outside ebook retailer to pre-order or purchase the book will see those ratings and reviews and not be aware
of the current sad state
of ugliness between authors and reviewers.
Selling all
eBook formats, including the Kindle format,
outside of the standard
retail channels
BookBub is a major influencer in the modern bookselling ecosystem: in particular, when it comes to the discoverability
of ebooks, BookBub is without a doubt the single most significant third - party player,
outside of the
retailers themselves.
3) The costs
of developing
ebook platforms,
ebook retailing sites and
ebook distribution systems are high, the Irish market is small, while it might have been possible to forecast the potential to gain customers
outside of the island, it is a difficult result to actually achieve (which makes EpubDirect's success all the more impressive) which mitigates against anyone investing in them