BookStats did not have figures to share about mass market
paperback sales at time of publication.
Not exact matches
Today, any
sale of used
paperback books will include
at least one of these.
Not only have ebook
sales passed hardback
sales at Amazon, now they've passed
paperbacks.
By January 2011, ebook
sales at Amazon had even surpassed
paperback sales.
Looking
at sales by format, trade
paperbacks — the format that holds adult coloring books — had a 4.01 % gain in unit
sales over 2015, which is slightly less than 2015 (5 %).
After another year or so, (note, we were about three years in
at this point) what started to become clear as electronic books exploded in
sales was that readers were buying electronic books in place of mass market
paperbacks, the pocket - sized books that sold around $ 7.99.
At this point in time (since most e-books can't be resold), e-reader owners miss out on things like garage
sales, rummage
sales and library
sales; places where a box of
paperbacks could be picked up for ten bucks.
And, anecdotally, we hear from fans all the time
at the conventions that were new to Valiant, picked up some digital issues during a comiXology
sale, got hooked and bought up the trade
paperbacks, and then moved to monthly print issues.
A few still pick through the bargain bin
at Costco for
paperbacks, or do so
at garage
sales, but shelf space in the home is
at a premium.
Since Amazon adjusts prices
at their whim, I just discovered today that the
paperback edition of my first novel, Testing the Prisoner, is on
sale for $ 3.99.
one of the first science fiction
paperbacks I ever bought,
at a library
sale on Rockcliffe Airbase in 1978.
The margin offered by them on each
paperback sold was $ 6.50 If I produce the same book using Lulu the margin
at the same recommended
sale price would be $ 9.00 (ignoring any production discounts).
And despite the growth in digital media,
at present
paperback sales still outweigh
sales of ebooks.
But there's time to devour
at least one more book, perhaps one of these three
paperbacks, on
sale today:
An acclaimed memoir that grabbed a spot on many best - of - the - year lists in 2015 leads our look
at new
paperbacks on
sale today:
The fewer e-book stores that exist, the less
sales the format generates, which is resulting in a resurgence of trade
paperback and hardcover
sales at the expense of e-books.
That includes
sales of single issues
at comic shops and newsstands, as well as book channel
sales of trade
paperbacks, or collected volumes of comics.
The initial price for the Kindle edition was $ 4.99 but on December 1 I reduced it to $ 2.99 (the
paperback version remained for
sale at $ 14.99).
While trade
paperbacks still lead the industry in
sales, it does seem inevitable that
at some point, eBooks will make up the vast majority of book
sales while physical books will fill a niche role.
You can publish a
paperback with an ISBN for distribution, a non-ISBN
paperback version to sell specifically on Lulu and your author site, an ebook for
sale on all platforms, a dust jacket hardcover you can sell either through distribution with an ISBN or solely on Lulu depending on demand for hardcover, and on top of all of this, you can always create a unique version to sell by hand
at an event, perhaps featuring a special foreword, bonus chapter, or teaser for another book still in the works.
When using third - party retailers for your books (both e-book or
paperback), the retailer handles the
sales tax issue (ever notice how the price of an e-book changes a little
at checkout?
Emma Donoghue continues on a high with impressive
sales for January of 2,578 for Room, as does Emma Hannigan's
paperback edition of Poolbeg published, Miss Conceived (though
at a much lower level).
It used to be that a
paperback book selling about once a day had a
sales rank around 50,000
at Amazon.
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.
If you're willing to give up the above for a potentially higher
sales volume, then here are the five main services
at your disposal, for free, to get your book onto Amazon.com as an ebook or
paperback.
February figures showed steeper declines in some print categories, with adult hardcover
sales falling 43 per cent to $ 46.2 m and mass - market
paperbacks down 41.5 per cent
at $ 29.3 m.
«Prior to joining IBPA, I worked in various
sales positions
at Penguin (national accounts, trade
paperback sales, distributor
sales, and special markets).
In other words, you could get the e-book for about what you might pay for the
paperback at Walmart, or on
sale at Borders.
My
paperback books will be on
sale for 40 % off
at CreateSpace, an Amazon company.
For Porter, it's akin to the 25 - cent
paperbacks people can buy by the bag
at library book
sales and used book stores.
Two, as I noted back in 2010, I have a sneaking suspicion that if Amazon had prevailed and capped eBook
sales at $ 9.99, publishers would have responded by standardizing * all * eBook prices
at $ 9.99, i.e., the eBook price would not have dropped in concert with the
paperback price.
Wayward trade
paperback sales continue to grow and that really drives us forward
at this point.
Six months ago, Amazon announced that e-books were outselling hardcovers
at the world's largest bookseller; now, Amazon announced that e-books are outselling
paperbacks (for Amazon U.S.
sales).
Even adult trade
paperback sales are looking vulnerable,
at $ 83.6 M (although they're probably safe until next January).
At the time, Amazon had expected Kindle books to start outselling
paperbacks in the second quarter of this year, so
sales have outpaced Amazon's own expectations considerably.
It's also worth noting that it requires
at least $ 2.62 in additional retail hardcover and
paperback sales to make up for the reduction in net publisher profit when that publisher gives up $ 1 in retail ebook
sales.
It also seems that these more - recent Big Five debuts are not making up that shortfall in added hardcover and
paperback sales...
at least not on Amazon.
I would love for our single issue
sales to be higher (and I'm hoping more of our collection readers will get impatient and subscribe
at their local comic shops) but right now our trade
paperback sales are strong enough that we can continue to push forward.
I haven't seen the numbers yet for mass - market
paperback sales for November (the post merely said they were decreasing the fastest of all categories,
at -14 %), but they were $ 60.2 M in October.
One other interesting note: the Publisher's Weekly press release noted that
sales of adult mass - market
paperbacks «all but died,» coming in
at only $ 20.8 M, less than half the figure from the previous year.
On - line
sales of digital and
paperback books, as well as
sales made
at local shops and local book signings make it possible for us to donate cash, goods, and books to animal advocacy groups.