And unfortunately, the Google Play store is not a significant factor when it comes to
overall ebook sales: a year ago, Google Play accounted for less than 2 % of the US ebook sales.
At the same time as the association was reporting a drop in
overall eBook sales, Amazon, the retailer with the majority of the US eBook market, reported increases in sales in terms of both units and revenue.
With
overall ebook sales for most publishers at a point of stasis for now, the Digital Book World conference commissioned Jonathan Nowell at Nielsen Book to provide a closer look at how the rise of ebooks has affected what sells in print form.
Industry analysts are estimating 24.5 million lucky folks will be unwrapping shiny new e-readers this holiday season, which is expected to double
overall eBook sales over last year's whopping $ 263 million.
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Not exact matches
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.
However,
ebook sales overall are still robust when you take into account the 30 % of
ebooks that do not have an ISBN number, and therefore do not show up in any of the traditional measures of
ebook sales, as clearly documented on authorearnings.com.
When it comes to audiobook
sales in the digital format they are often 10 % of the
eBook industry, in terms of
overall value.
Publishers keep saying that they do not see a correlation between the high cost of
ebooks and the
overall decline of
ebook sales.
In Canada, the Amazon Imprint footprint is a much more modest 3 % of all
ebook sales, largely due to the substantial shares of the
overall Candian
ebook market held by Kobo (25 %) and Apple (14 %).»
How can you trust any conclusion about the
overall direction of
ebook sales when 30 % of
ebook sales in the US are simply not being counted by the AAP?
Overall, my
sales across six retailers is up to 2.7 million
ebooks since January 2011.
And
overall, about 70 % of US fiction
sales are online as either audiobooks or
ebooks.
But now, according to research published by The American Association of Publishers (http://www.publishers.org/main/IndustryStats/documents/S12007Final.pdf),
ebooks have risen again like a Phoenix from the ashes, turning in a compound annual
sales growth rate of 55 % between 2002 and 2007, versus an anemic
overall trade book growth rate of only 2.5 %.
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).
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.
Overall,
eBook sales have increased by a paltry 4.8 % from $ 618 million in 2012 to $ 647 million in 2013.
In addition,
sales figures in The Canadian Book Market do not include
ebook sales, nor online
sales of print books, so the
overall book market may be healthier than reflected.»
In addition,
sales figures in The Canadian Book Market do not include
ebook sales, nor online
sales of print books, so the
overall book market may be healthier than reflected.Although Indigo suffered some big loses, the company is still bullish on their future.
Mike DiPiano, managing general partner of NewSpring, who now joins Open Road's board of directors, said, «There is huge disruption in the publishing industry as business models are rapidly evolving and
ebooks are becoming a greater share of
overall trade book
sales.
In a recent survey of 361 publishers, they all claim
ebook sales account for 9 % of their
overall sales.
The success of these ventures is critical to the
overall market growth of the
ebook segment and could very well be the deciding factors for
ebooks and e-readers
sales to reach critical mass.
First,
ebooks sold better in 2013 by numbers of total
sales, but actually resulted in less
overall revenue than they have in the past; this may stem from the understanding of where
ebook pricing should fall, and the fact that Amazon was able to discount
ebooks again after the stripping away of agency pricing following the DOJ lawsuit against the Big Five publishers.
Surging
ebook sales now represent an estimated 16.3 per cent of the
overall book market in Canada, a figure that caught even some industry watchers by surprise.
barnes and noble is not making new devices, they are doing it through Samsung Sony did stop selling
eBooks and e-readers, Reading did decline for the most part this year, in terms of
eBook sales overall not sure about e-ink and its doubling of market share, will have to ping
1) Produce lots of titles to increase name recognition and
sales overall; 2) Lower your price point and the readers will follow; 3) Don't worry about pricing, just focus on great writing; 4) Be a guest blogger, have your own blog, tweet, join forums, talk to readers, get reviews; 5) Use your
ebook as a promotional piece to sell classes, services, and other products; 6) There is no magic bullet, just keep doing everything and eventually you'll break through.
However,
sales of independently published
ebooks have been growing, which instead suggests that publishers are losing
ebook market shares to indie authors and Amazon imprints, rather than that the success of digital books and their consumption is dropping
overall.
Overall, ebooks had a good year in terms of overall unit
Overall,
ebooks had a good year in terms of
overall unit
overall unit
sales.
Ebook sales in Germany have doubled this year but still only account for two percent of the
overall book market, compared to 20 percent in the US, Gottfried Honnefelder, president of the German Booksellers» and Publishers» Association, told reporters here.
Once again, this raises the question of whether it's better to sell
ebooks for a lower price, reaching more readers and generating more
sales, or if the
overall turnover is what really counts.
The publisher failed to disclose how much of their revenue was digital, which leads me to believe that
ebook sales are continuing to fall, but the
overall digital decline is not as pronounced because of audiobooks.
Today the two lads talk about a new report that tracks
eBook sales for the first six months of 2013 and how the
overall landscape has remained flat.
With almost 400,000 books self - published in the US last year, Coker posited that indie authors represented 15 % of the
ebook market for 2013, and that a «fairly conservative» estimate would give them more than a third (35 %) of the
overall trade book market in seven years, and 50 % of
ebook sales by the year 2020.
That means the book publishing industry
overall will become more profitable in both net
sales (more customers) and profit per unit (
ebooks versus pbooks.)
Kobo
sales declining despite acquisitions 19 April 2018 (The Digital Reader) Kobo gained a boost in
sales by taking over the customer base of German
ebook platform Tolino last year but,
overall,
sales continue to decline.
«
Overall, the
eBook market makes up about $ 14.5 billion in
sales globally and is expected to reach more than $ 22 billion by 2017,» said Michael Tamblyn, President and Chief Content Officer, Kobo.
«In nearly all media coverage of the AAP's declining
ebook revenue, their
sales — the
sales of just 1,200 traditional publishers — are being conflated with the
overall sales of the entire US
ebook market.
eBooks now account for 6 % of the entire book industry and garnered # 92 million in
overall sales.
As
ebook discovery draws more focus and more readers and authors speak out about the need for guidance in finding new great reads, several companies are making a concerted effort to highlight some books that are doing well in terms of
sales and
overall traffic.
Overall,
eBook sales have increased by... [Read more...]
On her official blog she noted that «
Overall, my
sales across six retailers is up to 2.7 million
ebooks since January 2011... The self publishing journey I have been on has been exciting and exhausting!
Overall, I think what's happening is that the «mid-list» is moving to
ebooks, the megacorporations are moving to blockbusters only (and the corporate vanity titles like lit prize winners), and the non-narrative print books are moving to online
sales.
The Retail Gorilla — According to AuthorEarnings.Com — the
overall market share of US
ebook unit
sales is dominated by Amazon at 74 % with the balance held by other online retailers: GooglePlay, Kobo, Nook, Apple, and miscellaneous others.
The first thing that we need to measure is the percentage of the book market
sales of
eBooks over the percentage of the
overall traded books represented by our indie authors.
I have the other two
ebooks in KDP select still as the
sales on the other platforms are so tiny and after I dropped out of KDP last time I noticed my
overall Amazon
sales drop back.
The
overall eBook fiction
sales went ballistic over the moon north of # 172 million.
In
overall, the main tendency is that engagement is growing at Kobo — consumers buy more books, but still 10 % of customers make 50 % of the
sales, so it shows who starts reading an
ebook, will be a huge fan and will read more.
It is not likely that self - published
eBooks are counted merely s 25 % of
overall book
sales.
Now that the
sales for the
eBook have surged, so have the contributing authors»
overall ranking.
While it may seem counter intuitive to give away an
eBook you are trying to make money selling, reserving a segment of your budget for giving away
eBooks can actually help you improve
eBook sales overall.