There's a corresponding decline in
overall fiction sales in the US since 2013, revealed by Nielsen's PubTrack Digital and BookScan data.
Not exact matches
Christian
Fiction is on the decline, as
overall book
sales have plummeted 15 % from 2013 to 2014.
And
overall, about 70 % of US
fiction sales are online as either audiobooks or ebooks.
Overall science
fiction unit
sales have declined 1,488,000 in just two years.
The
overall eBook
fiction sales went ballistic over the moon north of # 172 million.
But
fiction sales are actually a relatively small portion of
overall book
sales.
As a result,
overall sales of
fiction declined in the 1990's before Amazon existed and long before it launched the Kindle.
Overall, however, the Irish retail book sector remains remarkably buoyant despite the recession, with the latest Nielsen data valuing the
fiction market here at just over $ 37m for 2009 with
sales of 3,882,427 to date for 46,929 titles.
«During the promotion my book rose to the number 1 position in two
fiction categories and soared into the top 50
overall...
sales that were generated after the promotion ended increased significantly.»
Historical
Fiction, for example, makes up 7 % of the
overall gross Kindle
sales in our all - genres July data.
Literary
Fiction, which is not a lucrative category
overall in publishing, makes up only 2 % of Amazon ebook unit
sales and 3 % of Amazon ebook dollar
sales.