With continually lower prices for both hardware and content, they'll soon make up the majority
of overall book sales too.
Now, BookLamp has set about to enable readers to receive recommendations on books they might like based on an enormous range of variables, everything from genre, book length, and similarity to other authors, even specifically down to how much of the work is devoted to love scenes; this model steps back from current book recommendations by other outlets which may base their data
on overall book sales instead of content.
According to a Publishers Weekly summary of an Association of American Publishers (AAP) study,
while overall book sales were down 2 % in 2012, adult book sales increased by 5.6 % partly due to a 33 % rise in adult ebook purchases.
They are cheering the fact that print is holding up
when overall book sales are either flat or declining (in part because of high prices) even as other forms of digital content are growing.
With overall book sales in Germany experiencing their first minor dip in years (1.4 %), more and more publishers are investing in their e-book business, despite the current lack of overwhelming demand from readers.
From the Scalzi piece: «First, if we are
talking overall book sales, I do think we're missing a lot if we're not bringing indie sales into the discussion.
Despite a dip in
overall book sales down under, Australian agents and rights managers report a booming business from the Frankfurt Book Fair.
In addition, e-books made up only 0.5 % of
overall book sales in 2010 and just 5 % of the 417 million euros in sales in the growing German download market (including digital purchases of music, audio and e-books, software, games and videos).
Overall book sales were down put title count.
With the introduction of free textbooks,
overall book sales have declined 7.6 percent in 2014 and 6.5 percent in 2015.
While Amazon is a very large part of
overall book sales, it is not the whole marketplace and we recommend not wagering your book's future by ignoring every other retail option.
As such, eBook sales in October were less than 1.3 % of
overall book sales (although there is no doubt some finagling to be done to balance retail and wholesale numbers).
Book metadata is important to your book's categorization, discovery, and
overall book sales.
Furthermore, in these days, where eBooks still account for a small percentage of
overall book sales («only 1 % to 2 % of total book sales, as measured by dollars» according to the WSJ article), publishers maintain essentially the same overhead because the bulk of thir sales are through tradtional bricks - and - mortar channels.
No one can seem to agree exactly how much weight the book cover contributes to
overall book sales but everyone agrees it's a heavy puncher.
At some point they'll look at
their overall book sales declining versus whatever they hoped to make off KDP, and some bright lad will figure out that it's not a good direction.
The Bottom Line: Find a way to tie your book to a cause or holiday and
your overall book sales will increase dramatically with the added publicity.
So audio books are still a small portion of
the overall book sales market, but they represent the fastest growing segment.
Brick - and - mortar bookstores maintained better sales performance than online bookstores for the second year in a row and even gained a higher percentage of
overall book sales (49.2 % of book sales in 2014 compared to 48.6 % in 2013).
Your posts suggest that
overall book sales should be rising; a percentage of book buyers no longer buy print, but that segment will purchase more books overall, albeit digitally.
You can market your book, or the one you're publishing for someone else, by optimizing SEO as part of
your overall book sales strategy.
What percentage of
your overall book sales have been audiobooks?
It also improves your discoverability, which typically raises the bar on
your overall book sales.
The AAP also found that
overall book sales in the US fell 1.8 %.
It is not likely that self - published eBooks are counted merely s 25 % of
overall book sales.
Having an audio version of your book often helps
your overall book sales, and anything that helps authors market their ebooks and earn more cash is something My Book Cave is very interested in.
Likewise, ebook sales are much bigger, both numerically and as a share of
overall book sales, than Big Publishing either realizes or reports.
While many of the test titles continued to have steady sales over the test period, the company saw downward trends in
their overall book sales over the same period.
Another study showed that Amazon's introduction of used books increased the online store's
overall book sales.
The ABA's Teicher acknowledged that it was a «fair question» to ask whether the health of the indie sector — which only accounts for around 10 percent of
the overall book sales — would have any meaningful influence on the entire industry as it works through the changes wrought by e-commerce.
If ebook sales continue to increase as a percentage of
overall book sales, and if print continues to decline as a format, and especially if brick - and - mortar bookstore closers continue or accelerate, it'll become increasingly difficult for publishers to hold on to their best authors.