Sentences with phrase «paperback sales»

This is not unusual as mass market paperback sales have been declined for the last twenty years.

Although there is a small decrease in paperback sales, the digital format has just seen a really huge increase in sales, leading people to believe that the traditional method is obsolete.

At some point I look for paperback sales to come back but I don't think it will come back to what it used to.

What's not mentioned: ebook sales numbers are a fraction of paperback sales numbers.

In 2007 the big decline started when paperback sales took a 2 % dip, bringing in a staggering $ 1.1 billion dollars.

On any given book, a publisher will keep around 85 percent of net paperback sales and 75 percent of net ebook sales.

And despite the growth in digital media, at present paperback sales still outweigh sales of ebooks.

Our success isn't measured by shelf space or paperback sales anymore....

And e-books helped replace a lot of mass market paperback sales.

I suspect ebook sales are the main thing causing that decrease in paperback sales.

We usually see ebook sales at about the 5 % — 10 % level of paperback sales.

(In fact, ebook sales surpassed paperback sales more than a year - and - a-half ago on Amazon.)

The first is Amazon's prediction that ebook sales will overtake paperback sales by the end of 2011.

Again, these won't be eligible for MatchBook, but can help inspire more paperback sales (even on Amazon, through the marketing effect of having more paperback books out there).

People still bought books in droves and the sales of hardcover / paperback sales rose by 3.3 % in 2016.

More people are reading ebooks than ever before and recently ebook sales overtook paperback sales for the first time.

Sales of e-books in February tripled over the previous year to $ 90.3 m, the Association of American Publishers reported, exceeding adult paperback sales of $ 81.2 m.

Mass - market paperback sales continue their decline (now down below 1 / 3rd that of e-books — it wasn't that long ago that e-books passing MM paperbacks seemed like a big deal).

BookStats did not have figures to share about mass market paperback sales at time of publication.

Interestingly, ebook sales rocketed past paperback sales 18 months ago, so anybody who still wants to diss e-publishing and stay in the 20th (or 16th) century is welcome to do that; the trend, though, certainly lets us know that new and exciting innovations await publishers and readers.

The Kindle has been a major driver of ebook sales, which passed paperback sales in the United States in early 2011.

In the same time period, paperback sales grew 4.3 % and sales of e-books fell 24.9 %.

And, besides, even at 17.5 % of gross, an author's e-book take is still better than their hardcover take, let alone the measly 8 % they get from paperback sales.

Kindle boss Jeff Bezos told USA Today that he expects Kindle ebook unit sales to exceed paperback sales on Amazon within 9 - 12 months.

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As of last week's list 20 of the top 50 USAT bestsellers were titles for which ebook sales were dominant, compared with 10 for which hardcovers sold the most copies and 20 for which paperback sales led the way.

Pyramid editor Leslie Schwartz indicates one reason for the vast volume of religious paperback sales: «Rather than [in] a specifically religious bookstore, these books are sold in very open, public places.

More than likely they would be happy with 3,000 copies, a decent paperback sale, and some overseas sales bought in the contract, with e-book sales, to make the author's advance back.

There's a severe shortage of streamlined pathways for self - published authors to get their books into libraries, with many authors resorting to simply donating copies of their books and hoping they get put on the shelves (as opposed to being sold in the 25 - cent paperback sale).

According to a new report by Nielsen paperback sales accounted for 42 % of all book sales, followed by hardcovers with 25 % and finally eBooks with a paltry 23 %.

A little while ago Amazon was crowing because ebook sales for the Kindle were more than doubling hardcover and then paperback sales on the site.

Gift Books Due to the «give - ability» of print books, December hardcover and paperback sales generally outpace the sale of ebooks.

The hardcover and paperback sales remain level.

It's not paperback sales and things like that, obviously.

The same trend is on display in the U.S., where -LSB-...] paperback sales were up 7.5 % over the same period, and hardback sales increased 4.1 %.

Digital sales, direct convention book sales and trade paperback sales pay some of that invested money back to me in the long run, but right now Skullkickers is still not in the «black».

That meant less market penetration and less sales, and the mass market $ 8.99 paperback sales dropped dramatically as customers just started to say no to more price increases.

This leaves us mostly with paperbacks and hardcover books, both of which, according to a Guardian article, are suffering «dramatically» (I don't see a 6 % decline in paperback sales during a recession as dramatic, but that may just be me).

In fact, e-books are a relatively recent phenomenon: Amazon reported the Kindle overtaking hardcover books only in July, 2010, and they will overtake paperback sales only later this year.

Sadly, PW also seems to have stopped providing as much detail on breaking down print book sales (hardcovers, trade paperbacks, etc.), although they did reveal that print book sales «plunged» in June, with trade paperback sales down a whopping 64 %, adult hardcovers down 25 %, and mass - market paperbacks down 22 %.

There is, however, no doubt that ebooks, which are decimating paperback sales, have now become the established, contemporary mass market for books.

«I predict we will surpass paperback sales sometime in the next nine to 12 months,» the Amazon founder said in an interview with USA Today.

I'd really like to know whether some genres fare better in e-book format than others, how e-book sales compare to hardcover vs. paperback sales, and which published authors are now selling more e-books than they are «bound» copies.

Throughout all of last year Amazon sold 115 Kindle ebooks for every 100 paperbacks sold, and three times as many Kindle books as hardcovers — considering paperback sales continued to grow and free Kindle ebooks were omitted that's even more impressive.